Today has been filled with study and checking off to-dos for the trip to India. I'm trying to be more than a good Bible study girl :), putting my heart and soul into message prep, along with being a good wife and mom--leaving the house semi-clean and filled with groceries.
Whew! I'm going to take a power nap once I get on that plane!
I need your help today, friends. I'm studying and pondering grace. This has been the place of my struggle for the last year or so as I'm finding rest in God's lavish, unearned grace. I have a hard time giving and receiving grace, but I'm learning. God is working it into my DNA slowly but surely.
Does anybody else have this problem? I'd love to hear why you personally have trouble receiving grace. I'll include your quote in my Sunday night message to Agape Fellowship in Kolkata India if you leave me something good! :)
Monday, October 17, 2011
Getting Ready!
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It's funny. This topic has been on my mind so much this week. I even blogged about it yesterday and today. The reason I have such trouble accepting grace is because the enemy taps me on the shoulder constantly, reminding me of my past, reminding me it's my fault I'm here in this spot (whatever spot it is on any given day), how this is all one big consequence of my actions, how I'll be stuck here forever.
But I know those are lies, and it wasn't until I suffered agonizing loss and reached the lowest point in my life that I realized that all any of us really has to cling to is His grace. I haven't let go since, because life without His marvelous grace is utterly hopeless.
By the way, my name is Amy and my boyfriend's name is Barry. :) Blessings to you, and safe travels.
Love.
I was attracted to finding out more about Amy Carroll's trip and life, because my name is also Amy, actually it is Amyjoy. Beloved-joy. And satan knows what love and joy in this world can do. He has done everything he can to steal joy and kill love in my life. God's grace and love are 2 things that i have the biggest challenge receiving in my life. Amy@make me a mary said it best, the enemy taps me on the shoulder reminding me....how i'll be stuck here forever. That was just what i was struggling with this morning. I want to know intimately God's grace and love and receive it. and be healed and transformed by it. And bring real love and joy to others.
Hello Amy,
I linked here from your post at Encouraging Words today.
Well, for me, Grace seems to come down as a very unexpected, totally undeserved shower of goodness. God tends to wait until I am at my lowest, or I am in pain, or I really have used all other options (I am learning more to go to Him first) and then He just showers me with His love, kindness and grace. And it is so very obvious that it couldn't have come from anyone but Him even if it comes through someone else.
That bill gets paid at the last minute. The questionable party that my grown daughter wants to go to gets cancelled. The car starts working again with a mechanic. Amazing, amazing grace and I am left in tears of Joy.
God bless you and your trip and all the women you are going there to meet. I pray you will see even more enlightened faces this time.
Lina
well i came to your blog from the proverbs 31 site in interest of your trip. my heart longs for those precious women and girls to find God and all His goodness. He's the ONLY one who can give them the strengthen to endure such unthinkable things and give them the healing they deserperatly need. Anyways I've been on a grace hunt/journey for the last year and a half. To me it's the ability to take that step that i really think i should take because He is with me even if I accidently mess up(which i'm good at). I'm still learning what it truly means and trying my best to accept it and give it away(I have 6 children that I don't want to struggle them being so critical as I am to myself). I pray for you in your journey and may you learn more about grace in India. A sister n christ, Amanda
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