I'm struggling with grace this week - grace for myself (because I am such a mess, and Someone has shown me enormous grace), grace for those around me (because I am such a mess, and Someone has shown me enormous grace, and I am training my heart's response to also show that grace to others).
But we've been talking in our small group on Wednesday nights about love and what love looks like and where it comes from. We've concluded (as, I think, my father so wisely pointed out several years ago) that if you act lovingly toward someone, eventually you will feel lovingly toward them. It's not easy, and it's certainly not fun. And the battle I have to fight against the bitter little voices in my head - I am only weary.
To finish the headline quote: "But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be, only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder." I'm going to start re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia this week. When we read them as children, they were a story. But I'm realizing they are a story about Someone, and I want to taste Him.
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