Grace

Do you ever feel like you know what God is trying to teach you and why you are going through a trial and then BOOM it's like the light comes on and you realize God is doing something else completely different then you could have imagined. That's where I'm at in life. It's like I try so hard to figure it all out instead of simply resting in Him. I thought I had this whole 2012 thing under control and that I knew what would happen this year and how it would all go down but God obviously has some other plans, good plans that are for His glory and my growth. The more things continue to rock and get turned upside down around me the more I am pressing into Him, knowing I won't survive without Him holding onto me. I have to get on my knees each day to find the grace and strength just for that one day and He has faithfully poured out the grace I have needed but just for that one day. I'm grateful for the hope I have that this new year will be filled with joy, challenge, ups and downs and more of His grace being poured out daily as I seek Him. I have so much to learn and am continually failing but praise God that I can find forgiveness in Him and a fresh start each day.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8,11

 ¹To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: ²A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; ³A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; ⁴A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; ⁵A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ⁶A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; ⁷A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; ⁸A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. ¹¹He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.