Friday 1 November 2013

Five Minute Friday: GRACE

Each Friday a group of women (and sometimes a man or two) join together for 5 minutes to write. No editing, no changes, no proof reading, just WRITE for 5 minutes. Today's topic? 

Grace

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Grace. 
Sometimes grace is not getting what we DO deserve. The punishment for things we do wrong, people we hurt, words said before we are able to stop them... grace. 
Coming from a Father so loving, so caring, so forgiving that just a breath of "I'm sorry" causes Him to forget that which we have done, forever, with no trace of it remaining. 
Gone.
Forever.
If only we loved like that... if only we were able to forget. 
And forgive. 
And have grace with each other. 

Grace in the moments where your daughter kicks you away because she wants Daddy. Grace where she shrugs your hand off her shoulder and rolls over. Grace in the moments where she pulls a face at you, or back-chats you. 
Grace. 
A moment of breathing and realising that I, too once did all those things to my mother .

Grace in the moment where a friend who is hurting so much that she wants others to feel the same pain, snaps, or says something so painful you just want to cry.
Grace
A moment where I realise that I, too, hurt sometimes and need love, not anger.

Grace. 
Where I realise I do so much worse to my Father at times...
Grace. 
Undeserved favour.

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7 comments:

  1. Forgive us. Forgive others. Forgiveness is the core of the prayer that Christ taught is and the core of who we are as Christians. It's the ultimate answer to the cliched question abbreviated WWJD. Thank you for the reminder. Hello from a fellow parent and one of the "man or two" at FMF. God bless!

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    1. Thanks for coming by David... and for being a part of this wonderful community! I am very grateful to have 'stumbled across' such a loving, caring, Godly group of people! God bless you too!

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  2. Beautiful. I am so glad to have met you at FMF. :)

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    1. I'm glad to have met you too! Blessings! XXX

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  3. This is so true! I so often find myself teetering on the verge of anger with my children. Feeling so rejected by them, after how I've loved them so much! And then I always think, wait a minute, this is exactly how I've treated God! And yet he still loves me. What a powerful motivator to love.

    I have often cried at how angry I have been toward my mother for all her mothering failures. And now I see myself in her shoes, seeing how she was a sinner just like me and had faults. How I hope my children can bestow grace to me when I am older for the ways I failed them. So it starts with me loving my own mother.

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    1. This is a very powerful word, it is true. And i am SO grateful to Lisa-Jo for bringing it back into my mind. I have been feeling very sad and down at how Jess has been treating me, and just the little reminder to have grace has made all the difference. I sometimes forget she is just 3 years old...

      And now that I am a mother too, I realise just how hard it is to be 'perfect'. I think that's why my dad has been on my mind a lot too, because I judged him from a dizzy height when I was a teenager. It is good to be reminded to have a little grace with our parents too, isn't it?

      Don't beat yourself up, Rebekah. You are a wonderful person, a good daughter and you are doing such an amazing job with your children, giving them the best grounding in life, and teaching them of a love that is everlasting and unconditional and right, even though at times we reject it. I don't need to know you personally, to know that these things are true. Your words are full of God's grace. No one is perfect, but at least we have Help ;)
      Lots and lots of love (and hugs) from SA. xxx

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    2. Thank you Lynn. You are a wonderful person as well, such a tender heart. Hugs back <3

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