Grace 2 - Life full of Grace ...

Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014. Our life is full of grace. Your life is full of it. Even if you do not realize - it is just a fact. But where is the grace in your life? Where is it?

Grace in my Life …

The most important things in our life are not earned. We are given life. We are given breath. We are given a body, usually with eyes to see, with ears to hear, with a nose to smell, with a tongue to taste. We are given a brain to think, legs to walk, arms to do many things - to play music, to be artistic, to be skillful.

We are given so many things, which we could never earn, which we could never construct, which we have not made! Our life is full of grace!

We are given a father and a mother, to raise us. We are given food, to grow. We are given milk or water, to drink. We are given care, love, attention. Over many years we are given all this, though we cannot do much ourselves. You cannot say that your life would not be full of grace!

You are given other people around you to talk to. You are given friends, to enjoy community and friendship. You might be given a partner, to live with, to love and to enjoy. Every human has others around. Of course, loneliness can fill our heart. But community is there for everyone. We are given an open heart to let the others in - and then community WILL grow. It is grace to find friends, to find a partner, to have children … Grace where ever you look. Your life is full of grace, indeed.

More grace …

We need to continue with the grace we find in our life. Personally, I feel a lot of grace coming through the science I do, through research, through the projects I am involved in and the people I work with. It is fantastic to share insight, to work together on proofs, on methods, on programs and applications. All this is a fantastic present, grace all over the place.

There is music. Some of us like to listen. Others love to play. Music is just great - and to be able to learn to play an instrument is a fantastic experience, with not many things being more beautiful. Others use their own voice to sing. What grace is there in the music we have, and the music we play. Lovely, beautiful grace, full of melody and beat.

There is more grace. There is the eternal God, who gives an eternal home to us. He provides salvation in Christ Jesus. It is given to us for free, given through faith. It cannot be earned. God continues his path of care which we have received on the first day of our life.

This world is designed to be a world of grace. God has made it that way. And he wants us to live in it eternally! If we choose to open up to the grace on which the world is built, we enter his kingdom of grace, once and forever. Come and live in his grace every day! (Roland Potthast) ... more texts