FMF: Graceful

This weeks Five Minute Friday word is Graceful. Lets see what comes in the next five minutes....


Graceful. I think of a beautiful woman, dancing to soft music. I think of children, looking like angels in their sleep. I think of God sending Jesus to broken humanity. I think of my mother, who seems to be the embodiment of grace. I think of my friend Pamela, who also reflects grace to me. And so many others in my life.
I think of how grace-less I often am, and how I wish for a heart that overflows with grace. Because it is the outpouring of grace that shines love and Christ into others' lives, and how often I have stumbled and not given grace when it was needed and how many relationships have suffered because of it, and how many people only see Jennifer when they look at me because my selfish grace-less-ness covers over the Jesus grace?
Thank God He is a God of grace, or I would have been damned long ago. But for His grace I can continue to learn and to grow, and to scratch through the surfaces of self and reflect more of Him.
Each moment I give grace, is another moment I allow the Holy Spirit to work in me. And, it opens new worlds and gives new meaning to life. Grace is a door to an abundant life, to get grace is a knock on the door, an invitation, but to give grace is to open it wide.
I want my door to be open. Wide.


That might have been more like 6 minutes....but there you go. Find more posts on Graceful at Five Minute Fridays!!!!