Grace is an Ocean...

Today I fly home. Today I return back to reality, vacation is over and life is back to normal.

Yet this time normal isn't going to last long. Normal for me isn't going to look the same much longer. A new normal is on its way.

And I can't begin to tell you how many emotions that stirs up within me. Excitement, nervousness, fear, anticipation, urgency, and so many others.

This past week I have had the opportunity to relax, to read, to reflect, and to be thankful. I looked out over some of the most beautiful of landscapes in awe of the creation of my Father. I was in the middle of the ocean imagining over and over again the idea that "if grace is an ocean we're all sinking," that is a lot of grace!!!

Thank you Heavenly Father for that grace that drowns me. I saw the beauty in islands, mountains and creation. Thank you Heavenly Father for creating such a beautiful world that is so perfectly orchestrated. I sat on a beach with more grains of sand than one could ever count. Thank you Father that you not only know and placed every grain of sand but that you know every hair on my head and hear my deepest cries. I am so small in this realm of creation, yet so important to the one who created me.

Thank you becomes inadequate. Awe becomes overwhelming. Silence echoes so loud. I am so thankful, so in awe, and I stand most often stripped of the right words when I think about the Lord.

I just finished the book "Kisses From Katie." In this book, the story unfolds of the life that the Lord has called Katie Davis to live. I found myself in tears most of the time. How can a girl I've never met touch my heart so deeply? I can only pinpoint one thing. Truth. She writes, speaks, and lives the truth that is outlined by our Savior. She inspires me. She encourages me. She answers questions I didn't even know I had. Her life is such a beautiful picture of the only response to overwhelming grace that I can imagine: action. To do something. To be Jesus to a lost and broken world. To help just one more. To love just a little bit more. To sacrifice all that I am.

That is my prayer. To simply "do". To "do" whatever it is He calls me to. Whatever path He sets me on, I want to trust enough to just "do".

I hope and pray that you all pray that same prayer for me and this journey i am going on but also for you and the life he has given you. Wherever you are, whatever you do, live in His will for your life. Seek him daily, rely on him for everything, and doubt him in nothing.

His grace is enough, it will catch you when you fall. His love is enough, it will comfort you in your loneliness. His mercy is enough, It is new EVERY morning. So "do". "Do" whatever He has presented you with because drowning in that ocean of grace is way more life giving than sitting on the beach dry and lifeless.