Grace Candy

A craving....for something sweet....happens to everyone. I never realized it was grace I was craving that day until now, but it wasn't exactly as sweet as it could have been, when the forgiveness I was seeking from a friend was not received with grace. Sour it tasted, burning in my throat. Rejected.

"Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion. For He is a God of justice, blessed are those who wait on Him." Isaiah 30:18

Gracious He is! He is the storekeeper of a shop full of grace candy! Recently, He delivered a generous portion to me. Extra....again....on top of the salvation He gave. I didn't deserve either helping, but it was like a Christmas stocking or Easter basketful when the Spirit moved and the call came. "I'd like your forgiveness," someone else said. I heard myself in her voice.

"How sweet are your words to my taste, yes sweeter than Honey to my mouth." says the Psalmist in 119:103 This time the grace was for me to give....would I share sweetness?

And then again, as if I had served the breaking blow to the party pinata, a different Spirit led encounter...craving grace in her request from me? In the same week? Is there enough?

James 4:6 says "But He gives a greater grace...."

Then IT came, not sour but sweet....remember the glove? The left handed, wrong-handed glove for my son. The big faux paus wrapped in zeal from a previous blog? Humbling is God's grace when we are on the giving end and even more so on the receiving end. My son comes in with the sweet result of plans well made since 2 months ago....a glove...for Mom...bought with his own birthday money. It fits ...on the correct hand....a great big piece of grace candy!

"...grace abounded all the more." Romans 5:20b