Grace

Unmerited favour.  

Have you ever been the recipient of unmerited favour?  Someone showed you kindness when you didn’t really deserve it?  

I feel like I have been on edge for months now.  Covid has taken stress to another level.  Less cash.  Less social time with friends.  More emotional eating.  More uncertainty.  More fear.  And in our case less tolerance.  I feel like in our home we have been less tolerant this year.  Yet we have spent some of the most quality time together ever.

What do you do when you speak before you think?  I never used to be that person.  Admittedly this year i have said things before I think.  I am quick to hand out an apology but I will tell you this year I learned about grace.  I needed more grace from my family and I am also learning to give more.  

I believe showing grace is a sign of maturity. When I witness people losing their cool over something small I feel like they are acting out of their own pain. Seeing people who are calm, kind and full of grace feels safe. I wonder if this comes with age. I hope it does.

Sometimes when life is out of sorts and we are scrambling and everything is not as it could be, we give thanks for grace.  If nothing else, 2020 has taught us a new normal.  And 2020 has taught us that our world could use a lot more grace.