I’ve got a very early start this morning, and I’m straining to hear what Good News the day will deliver.  I refuse to turn on the television, because I don’t want to hear about the latest overnight shooting or the antics going on in our government.  But the pause, I know, will only be temporary.

As I’m preparing for my first meeting, I can hear my youngest getting ready for school, and guess what?  She’s singing! “I am still here, and it’s by the grace of God…” 

Thank you, Jesus.

We are still here.  By the grace of God.  Things are in no way ideal, and there is much to lament with all that’s going on, but we are still here!  God is yet holding all things together.  As fraught as things are, as upsetting as circumstances are, and as disappointed as we may feel – we are all living, breathing proof – witnesses to the grace of God.  We are still here.  There is breath in our bodies.  There is blood running warm in our veins.  We have the mind to read/write these words.  We are still here.  This is grace.  

We are still here. What will this grace produce in us today? My hope is that as we receive this grace, this grace will produce within us more grace until it overflows and extends to those around us.  This is the grace that gives life and transforms, no?

We are still here, by the grace of God.  It is living and active – it is at work within us – producing within us – world-changing power!  Let this be our witness, let this be our protest against the pressure and dark powers that stokes fears that leave us to despair.  We are still here by the grace of God.

Thank you, Jesus.  

¹³ He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 

Colossians 1:13-14

Good Morning, I love you all!

ihs,

just adam