THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 09/25/2015

THOUGHT FOR TODAY - 09/25/2015
GRACE: SWEETER THAN AMNESIA
"Grace isn't about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It's when you finally realize that the other shoe isn't going to drop, ever. It's the moment you feel as precious and handmade as every star, when you feel, finally, at home for the very first time.

"Grace is when you finally stop keeping score and when you realize that God never was, that his game is a different one entirely.
"Grace is when the silence is so complete that you can hear your own heartbeat, and right within your ribs, God's beating heart, too.

"I used to think that the ability to turn back time would be the greatest possible gift, so that I could undo all the things I wish I hadn't done. But grace is an even better gift, because it allows me to do more than just erase; it allows me to become more than I was when I did those things. It's forgiveness without forgetting, which is much sweeter than amnesia."
~ Shauna Niequist, in her book Bittersweet