Moments of Grace
“Everything is grace”
Saint Therese of Lisieux
Join us each Friday as we dig a little deeper into the week that just passed. You know the one–the one just seemed to fly by…or drag on and on with no relief or end in sight. It’s in this digging or sifting, depending on the week we’ve had, that we begin to harvest the grace. We may pull a moment from here or there…hold it up to the light and see the hand of God written all over what we thought only ordinary.
We begin to see the mundane as magnificent…The repetitious as rare moments of time…The everyday as exceptional.
And we pause, lift our eyes, minds and hearts…and say “Thank you.”
Link up or join us in the comments. Share a story, poem, gratitude list or single photo. Show us God’s amazing grace in your life. And then take the time to visit or comment the other lovely ladies.
Moments of Grace
Happy Friday…in Lent. How was your week? Mine was fun, boring, loud, unexpected, the usual…all wrapped into one.
It snowed! Well for our state, we considered it a snow. Those of you up North would probably consider it a dusting.
The kids and dog had a great day playing in it. Speaking of the dog, Miss Lucy is on my list. Last Sunday her little sharp puppy teeth tore 4 items of clothing…4!! And then during the week, I was wearing one of my favorite denim skirts and she tore the back of it! We need her to quit nipping. We hold her mouth and tell her a firm no, and that makes no difference. So now we hold her mouth and give her a bop on the nose. I have not seen a change yet. Thankfully my neighbor thinks we can cut and hem the skirt.
Tell us about your Moments of Grace from this past week. Where did you and God finally meet up in your day to day? Was it sitting in the carpool line, when He whispered and got your attention? Or walking through the grocery store? Maybe a late night nursing? Share in the comments or link up if you have a blog.
Moments of Grace
“Everything is grace”
Saint Therese of Lisieux
Join us each Friday as we dig a little deeper into the week that just passed. You know the one–the one just seemed to fly by…or drag on and on with no relief or end in sight. It’s in this digging or sifting, depending on the week we’ve had, that we begin to harvest the grace. We may pull a moment from here or there…hold it up to the light and see the hand of God written all over what we thought only ordinary.
We begin to see the mundane as magnificent…The repetitious as rare moments of time…The everyday as exceptional.
And we pause, lift our eyes, minds and hearts…and say “Thank you.”
Link up or join us in the comments. Share a story, poem, gratitude list or single photo. Show us God’s amazing grace in your life. And then take the time to visit or comment the other lovely ladies.
Moments of Grace
Every so often I have these moments where I feel like I live in two different time periods; the period of a young mother because I have a baby and the time of an older mother because I am a mother to older children. Now granted they are only teens, but compared to an almost one year old, yes, I mother older children.
I’m not sure any of this is making any sense…I know the grace it took to get here and now. I know the grace needed to continue. I am acutely aware at times that in four very short years I may not be waking my oldest from her top bunk. I am painfully aware that in four short years my baby will be 5…my that seems like a life time away.
I have these pangs of “Relish the time now because you could have never imagined your baby being 14″ and the perplexing questions of “Where will Chris and I eat dinner once all the children have moved out? Will we eat at the table where we all cram in now or will we eat at the bar?”
And then I laugh at myself because please God I have at least a good 18 years before that question will have to be answered.
Join us each week as we pause, look back on the week, and relish those moments–Moments of Grace.
Moments of Grace
St Therese said it best
“Everything is Grace”
Everything is grace…there is not one thing in this life that is not His grace.
Everything is grace…you are because He loves you.
Synonyms of “is”–exist, abide, act, be alive, breathe, continue, do, endure, go on, have being, have place, hold, inhabit, last, live, move, obtain, persist, prevail, remain, rest, stand, stay, subsist, survive…Because of God the Father’s love for you.
You exist…because of His grace.
You abide…because of His grace.
You act…because of His grace.
You breathe…because of His grace.
You continue…because of His grace. (Oh come on now!)
You do…because of His grace.
You endure…because of His grace. (MmmHmm)
You go on…because of His grace.
You last…because of His grace.
You live…because of His grace.
You move…because of His grace.
You obtain…because of His grace. (Yes!)
You persist…because of His grace. (Keep on girl!)
You prevail…because of His grace. (Who needed to hear that with me?)
You remain…because of His grace.
You rest…because of His grace. (I know I needed to hear that one too.)
You stand…because of His grace.
You stay…because of His grace.
You survive…because of His grace.
Go back through those, slowly, maybe more than once. Let the reality of God’s grace sink deep into you my dear sisters.
Everything is grace…
In its widest meaning, the term signifies any gratuitous gift of God to a rational creature, the bestowal of which is motivated by divine benevolence, whether the gift be natural or supernatural, internal or external to the recipient. In its strict and ordinary sense, however, grace is a supernatural gift of God’s beneficence, gratuitously bestowed upon a rational creature (angel or man), for the ultimate purpose of fitting the recipient for life eternal.
All grace comes indeed from God, but since the fall every grace bestowed upon human beings is based on the merits of Christ. Before the fall Adam received grace directly from God, without reference to the Saviour of mankind; and so did the angels whilst they were oh probation. But now we, the children of the fallen Adam, receive grace only through Christ Our Lord. Grace is so necessary that without it we cannot do anything for life eternal. Hence the words of Christ: “Without me you can do nothing” (John 15).
–New Catholic Dictionary
So what were you’re moments of grace this week?
At first glance were you handed, what you thought might be a bunch of weeds, but in reality…was God’s grace?
Share in the comments or link up my friends.
Let’s celebrate the here and now life He gives to prepare for the eternal life He gives.
Moments of Grace
Join us each Friday here at Suscipio as we look back over the week. The week that may have caught you off guard but always blessed you. Now’s your opportunity to step back from the day to day, and see the moments that made those days full of grace.
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”
~ Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Did you spread love or where you difficult to love? And please don’t answer out loud because I don’t want to. Let’s resolve to do more of one and less of the other in the coming week.
Link up or join us in the comments. Share a story, poem, gratitude list or single photo. Show us God’s amazing grace in your life. And then take the time to visit or comment the other lovely ladies.
Moments of Grace
I told you about my Thursday.
Let me show you my Monday.
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.”
–Flannery O’Connor
Join us each Friday as we dig a little deeper into the week that just passed. You know the one–the one just seemed to fly by…or drag on and on with no relief or end in sight. It’s in this digging or sifting, depending on the week we’ve had, that we begin to harvest the grace. We may pull a moment from here or there…hold it up to the light and see the hand of God written all over what we thought only ordinary.
We begin to see the mundane as magnificent…The repetitious as rare moments of time…The everyday as exceptional.
And we pause, lift our eyes, minds and hearts…and say “Thank you.”
Link up or join us in the comments. Share a story, poem, gratitude list or single photo. Show us God’s amazing grace in your life. And then take the time to visit or comment the other lovely ladies.
Moments of Grace
OK, yesterday was a rough day…very, very rough. I’ll lay out the day and then see the Moments of Grace.
Yesterday I had to put down a wounded alpaca.
Yesterday I had to make the decision to have our beloved dog put down because she took advantage of a wounded animal. I can’t have that. I cannot have a dog who would take advantage of an animal three times her size. What if she took that same advantage of a child half her size?
To say I am dehydrated and strung ragged from crying would be an understatement. But so are my children.
Oh yeah, and I have mastitis.
Soooo, the Moments of Grace?
::Older children who thank me, through their tears, for making hard decisions.
::Younger children who sit next me so we can cry together.
::A husband who buries a dog in the dark with a crying family standing around…after a full days work.
::I can make a call to a sister of my soul in the middle of the day as all this baloney begins to unfold and tell her to set the timer to pray for me every hour…and know that she is
::long hot showers
::family rosary at night before bed…even if we cry through most of it
::a chubby baby oblivious to any of this who smiles and waves and makes us laugh in spite of ourselves
::no waiting at the vet…that would have prolonged the pain
::God’s grace to know that someone, somewhere, is hurting more than us…and to pray for them.
They were there, these moments of grace. They may have been fleeting and the noise and demands of life may have tried to drown them out, but they were there. They were in the strength to do what we thought we could not do, to accomplish what we thought impossible and even to enjoy what we were afraid we may miss.
Link up or share you Moments of Grace in the comments box. And then, go visit each other, encourage each other, support each other.
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