His grace is sufficient.

Some mornings, I wake up with a song stuck in my head.  Now that can be a good thing or it can be a challenge to "get it out".  When I was working with Pre-K 4, how many times, can "The Wheels on the bus go round and round" go through your mind till you want to just scream.  But for the last couple of days, the same song "Your Grace is Enough" by Chris Tomlin has just been penetrating my thoughts.  I wake up with the song on my mind, it threads through my day and I have been going to bed with it still playing.  So as I reflect back on the themes of this week, I realize that I have needed to know that His grace is sufficient.

So what was this week?  Well I am just going to put it into nouns.......birth, engagement, death, cancer, Spring Break, unemployed, deployment, employed, Alzheimers, wedding....I could go on.  I am sure some of these very events have occurred in your life or touched you through a family member, friend, colleague or someone just sharing about their love one.

What a tidal wave of emotions we have throughout the day.  As women, all our thoughts and reactions touch everything...we are a "ball of emotion" bouncing or maybe rolling along trying to be  successful. So how do we "anchor" ourselves with all that impacts our lives.  In one of Beth Moore's Bible studies, she proposes that in dealing with  our worst fears (If ________ happens, then ______), we come to this conclusion, no matter what, God is the end result....He anchors us through everything.

2 Corinthians 12:9

New International Version (NIV)

⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

How encouraging to me to to know that as these events of life wash over me and some of them throw me against the rocks, I can anchor myself to God cause He is made perfect in my weakness to handle life.    

"Your Grace Is Enough"  by Chris Tomlin

Great is Your faithfulness oh God
You wrestle with the sinner's heart
You lead us by still waters and to mercy
And nothing can keep us apart

So remember Your people
Remember Your children
Remember Your promise
Oh God

Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough for me

Great is Your love and justice God
You use the weak to lead the strong
You lead us in the song of Your salvation
And all Your people sing along

So remember Your people
Remember Your children
Remember Your promise
Oh God

Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough for me [x2]

So remember Your people
Remember Your children
Remember Your promise
Oh God

Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough for me

Your grace is enough
Heaven reaching down to us
Your grace is enough for me
God I see your grace is enough
I'm covered in your love
Your grace is enough for me
For me

Just a closing note, stating the obvious, men respond differently to all those "nouns" then how we respond.  They are more factual, rational based in their reactions.....you know:" How much will that cost?", "When is that going to be?", "Do I have to go?"........Everything we do touches everything else in our life where as our men, well they can departmentalize everything. And you know what, according to comedian Mark Gungor, men have an "nothing box" and they like to go there.  Enjoy