Grace Thoughts

When tears of sorrow and suffering Crash down in thunderous waves, Lift your eyes to Heaven's light Where shines Christ's glorious rays.          •           •           •           •           •              For from on high, the sun shines true Though darkness clouds the eye; And in each dreary teardrop day The Son of God is nigh.            •           •           •          •           •             For in these prisms GLORY shines God's promises divine, Gleaming jewels of priceless worth Woven in faith's skies   •          •          •          •...

Love is a pathway etched in the heart Carved by the hands scarred to impart, The message of mercy in acts and in words; The good news of grace that no one deserves. •    •    •    •    • Love is the choice of one heart to draw near To another without living in dread of any fear, For the cost of the closeness is willingly paid With the joy of Heaven's coming being the trade. •    •    •    •    • Love is obedience to take up one's cross To walk in the steps of sacrifice and loss, For the sake of pointing one broken soul To the Savior who alone can heal and make whole. • • • • • Love is the whispered prayers through the day That yield no seen fruit but are whispered anyway Like seeds that are planted in darkness and death So each prayer that is spoken is love's abiding breath. • • • • • Love is the road that leads to the joy Of knowing the One who came as a boy The boy in the manger tha...

  Power unmeasured and beauty untold; Infinite wisdom and grace. Do you not know? And have you not heard? The Almighty God died in our place. •   •   • He sat enthroned in Heaven above; He called all the stars by name. Yet in wondrous meekness and powerful love, To the world He created, He came. •   •   • Hidden in darkness in Mary's womb, He was holding the world by His might. Born to give life through death and the tomb, To the darkness He came as the Light. •   •   • The Alpha and Omega; the Beginning and End; The Son of Righteousness with healing in His wings. Born in a stable as the Lamb of God, This was Jesus the King of kings. •   •   • The Sovereign Ruler---the Creator of all The God who is mighty to save, Came to the shepherds with good news of great joy, For Jesus came to earth to conquer the grave. •   •   • Glorious majesty! Wrapped in wondrous humility! In the manger,...

Imagine the beauty of a newborn world clothed with the joy of Heaven and bathed in the light of God, suddenly replaced by a hideous deception. The woman and the man turned from God to their own way and the tapestry of love was ripped to pieces as humans replaced the wisdom of God for the lies of his enemy. God had warned them that if they disobeyed, they would be trading  in life for death. The words sunk in deep as Eve held the lifeless, broken body of her son Abel in her arms. She remembered standing before the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and reaching out to take of its forbidden fruit. The scene must have flashed before her eyes when she ate of the fruit and handed it to her husband Adam. They stood together next to that tree guilty and filled with shame and fear. As Eve gazed down at her murdered son, the weight of her choice bore down on her soul. A darkness closed in that threatened to swallow her up, yet hope pierced the darkness with a beam of light. The l...

Precious Jesus, Your love is streaming From Your wounds that bled for me. Your blood was shed to buy my pardon; Your love endures and sets me free. •   •   •   • For long was I chained in death's dark prison Serving sin and Satan's cause Till mercy reached down to me in Jesus Transformed my heart by grace's matchless laws. Only Jesus! Now and forever! Only Jesus fills my soul! Only Jesus by grace has saved me! Only Jesus has made me whole! •   •   •   • Only Jesus! His name my anthem! Only Jesus! My sinful heart's cure! Only Jesus! My light in darkness! Only Jesus! My hope secure! Precious Jesus, Your glory's shining Brilliantly from wounds of grace As You stand in glorious splendor You plead for me and sustain my faith. •   •   •   • From death's dark prison You rose the Victor ALIVE! Now death has lost its sting! A...

The morning is new as I meet it again And waiting for me is the mess without end And over and over and over again I kneel in the mess, my little ones to attend. For I've three little lambs who are crying again With hurts that cascade and fears that descend; And over and over and over again My love meets these lambs in their mess to transcend. •   •   •   • Reaching past the tears and the mess that is seen To touch little hearts once again With whispers of mercy and tidings of joy Of life everlasting in the end. And over and over and over again Christ's love is proclaimed to the lambs that I tend Lord, Your new morning mercies meet me again As I wait for you here in the mess that I'm in And over and over and over again You kneel in this mama's mess to rescue my heart from sin. •   •   •   • For I, Your helpless lamb, am crying again With a heart full of hurt from fears...

Wandering through desert lands On the path carved in stone. The way seems desolate As I walk here alone And over and over again I find,  This road leads back to the same broken place where I hide. I wonder, when will this road lead to you? When will my wandering in desert lands be through? When will I see you face to face? When will I stop hiding in this broken place? A sweet, gentle breeze whispers my name: "Child, look up and see the crimson rays Of the Son's wondrous glory Shining on every step of your story You are not lost in a dry desert land You are simply walking the path in my hand. And that path shall always lead you to the place you can hide, The broken place is for you to rest and abide In my mercy and grace for my wounds are your healing. You may not understand all I'm revealing In the tiny moments of your days, But know that you are never out of my gaze. What you think is wandering on an end...

"For God's will was for us to be made holy by the. sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time." ~Hebrews 10:10 "But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God's right hand. For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy." ~Hebrews 10:12,14 White Clover "And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus." ~Hebrews 10:19  Black-headed Worm "By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place." ~Hebrews 10:20  Gray Field Slug "And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Chr...

"O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me... Wild Lily ...but I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; liked a weaned child is my soul within me... Bumblebee in the Clover ...O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and forevermore." ~Psslm 131 Gray Field Slug "Consequently, [Jesus] is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through Him... ...since He always lives to make intercession for them." ~Hebrews 7:25 "And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgement, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many... Butterfly Bush ...will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him." ~Hebrews 9:27-28 Carpenter Bee Tiny, teeny flies with golden bod...

In glorious streams of golden light, The sun reaches down to scatter night. Darkness may linger on till the dawn, But birds sing forth an expectant song. Their voices pierce the darkest veil: Welcoming the sun without fail. They prepare for the sun's sure return With a joyous song---from them we learn... ●    ●    ● That though the darkness lingers long We too should lift up a faithful song To pierce the darkness with the praise Of the risen Son who comes to raise Our lowly bodies---these jars of clay--- To glorious life in an unending day. ●    ●    ● And though the darkness is now all that we see Let's raise our voices in faith and believe That praise in the night paves the way for the dawn When the Son shall return and the night shall be gone.