May My Heart See...

All alone, just me and You.   I thought to myself, “this is perfect”.   I need this.   I need this time alone with You.  You are all I want.  All I need.   So I laid back on the hammock and looked up.   Clouds, sky, sun, trees. Your creation was still.   I thought about Who You were and where I’d been.   Your goodness and my sin.   It felt like it was just You and me, nothing else.    I was humbled.   That the God of the universe knew my name. Chief of sinners – yet I was forgiven.   I truly did not understand. I realized I would never really ever understand.   So I sang praises to Your Name and laid my heart out for You to take.   I gave You my will, my strength and my being.   All I was – was Yours.   It felt . . . free. Safe.   Loved.   I savored Who You are and just sat there in Your Presence.   There is None like You.   No one.   You ar...

Imparting Grace: Grace at Home No. 68

I’m a “git er done” kind of person, are you?   I mean, when things need to be done, I do them.   I don’t think about doing them, I don’t wait to do them, I do them.   In fact, some times ( most times actually) I do things too fast and don’t think first, leaving a lot of my tasks, “sort of done” – but hey, they’re done, aren’t they??!! Unfortunately, my “git er done” attitude has taken me away from those I love.   In order to get it all done, I have to be “doing”.   And in “doing”, I don’t have time to sit and listen, to just be there for someone, or to “love them” where they are without trying to fix something.    If I can’t fix it, what good am I?   That’s my motto. Well, that used to be my motto, anyway.   My eyes tear up as I think of all I have missed.   All the times I could have been holding my baby or listening as they rambled when they came home from school.   All the wonderful memories – and me not having time for ...