God's Glory - His Grace

God's Glory - His Grace

As many of us have come to discover, life comes with a lot of unexpected and uninvited disappointments. Our burdens come in different shapes and sizes - and in different seasons of our lives. A lesson the Lord has been trying to teach me, this past year, is stop asking Him to get me out of certain situations and instead start asking to get all I can from the situation. After all, He did allow and even designed every day I will experience in my life. (Psalms 139:16). There is no burden which, if we lift it cheerfully and bear it with love in our hearts, will not become a blessing to us.  God means our tasks to be our helpers; to refuse to bend our shoulders to receive a load, is to decline a new opportunity for growth.          Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming,  which God has been so good    as to fasten with His own hand upon our shoulders. Those sweet moments that take us from our everyday doings to reflect on God's glory. As I did this particular day, Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - as I looked at skies of blue and clouds of white. With everything going on around me downtown, it did not distract me from that moment - that glance. So, no matter the strife I may have or the upsets, I know I will outgrow it - with God's grace and mercy.