grace - noun, verb, graced, grac·ing.
–noun
1. elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action.
2. the freely given, unmerited favor and love of god.
A big question struggle of mine lately is how to show Gods love and grace to others. I think this has been on my mind for one reason- my suitemate. It really is no lie that we don't get along. I was reading her latest blog entry last night and (I could be wrong) it seemed like she was talking about me. How she views me, anyways. Not how I see myself to be.
This is an exert:
"I know that God sees my good, and God sees when bad happens. To those who believe they do good, but clearly do bad... all that I really have to say, is that I may not see it at times, others may not see it at times, but there is always one who sees it no matter what."
She said various other things that all pointed to how I know she sees me.
It hurts me- to the point of tears. I don't know what to do. I passed her in the hallway a few days ago and said "Hey!" and she just looked at the floor and mumbled something. "Hi," maybe.
I tried to make conversation with her in the bathroom about her favorite song, told her "happy birthday" and several other things. I am trying to show love towards her, but it's so hard when you get no response. Is she not looking past the trivial drama (SpaghettiO's) like I am? I am able to laugh about it- hence the 'I Steal SpaghettiO's' blog post.
That's when this all came to me. As soon as I thought, "It's so hard when I get no response," I thought of God and his wonderful grace.
The freely given, unmerited favor and love of God.
She (suitemate) may be unresponsive, she may always think I'm fake, she may always have a hatred towards me, but I will love her anyways, because God loves me, even on days when I am
unresponsive.

this post is great.
ReplyDeletethat's beautiful Autumn!
ReplyDeleteI know it may be hard, but just keep doing what you are doing!
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