Once again it has been a while since I last posted!  I love reading blogs by other people but I just don't know how they find time, ideas and/or creativity to do it.  BUT....(one of my favorite words from the bible) but I will continue on my quest to blog even if it is just a post here and a post there.  My creative juices are flowing today so I am thinking of changing up a few things on my blog and maybe, just maybe that will encourage (or nudge) me to post more. 

This year it flying by!! I can not believe my babygirl's birthday is less than two weeks away and she will be an official teenager!  If that were enough to make me feel my age, in just a few short months my son will graduate school.  REALLY??? Am I that old already?  Needless to say it is a very exciting time in our home.  Many changes in our future so I am trying to cherish all the moments while I can.

In my last post in November I mentioned the roller coaster of emotions I was on.  Well I have to give God praise because for the moment the roller coaster has stopped!  God guided me to a beautiful book to read called Grace for the Good Girl by Emily P. Freeman.  I am reading it at a snails pace compared to the way my husband reads his books but I want to make sure it sticks with me.  I want to take it all in.  It has been a tremendous help to me and my thought process.  I am guilty of always worrying about what others think, how others feel; which in and of it's self is not bad unless you do like I do and allow it to dictate your choices.  This book is showing me how I tend to hide behind different masks so that people don't really get to see the REAL me, they get to see the person I want them to see.  And if the book weren't good enough by itself, God also had it timed just right for me to read to come along side of our series at church on Grace.  Isn't God's timing always perfect! 

I've heard of people choosing a word to focus on for a few months or a year and it appears that for now GRACE it my word!  I have learned so much about Grace and I know I still have a lot more to learn.  The most important thing I take from the book, the series and the bible is that God's grace is sufficient!  It covers me, not part of me but ALL of me.  I don't have to strive to be perfect (a challenge I could never accomplish anyway); I need only let God's power "be made perfect in my weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9

So what did I do to deserve God's grace??? NOTHING!  That's right nothing.  God GIVES us grace!  It is a gift from the great I AM!  How amazing it that?  The creator of the universe sees me with all of my flaws,  all of my sins,  all of my imperfections and He still loves me enough to cover me in Grace.  You can have God's grace too. All you have to do is accept His gift of salvation and grace.  He is eagerly awaiting on you to ask Him.  I encourage you, if you don't know Christ as your savior, to seek Him.  God doesn't promise an easy life when we come to Him but He does promise to walk with us and cover us with grace.  He will be there in the lonely dark places and the sunny, joyful places.  He will even ride a roller coaster of emotions with you!  What an amazing God!

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast."  Ephesians 2:8-9