a couple of weeks ago we'll get real honest ethan and i got into a discussion right this
doesn't happen anybody else's marriage is just ours oh okay i've been 37 years i can't
relate we closed the bedroom door and we were talking all of our kids were outside watching tv
and probably destroying the whole house but we were gonna get through this conversation
and i remember in the moment i just began to cry and i began to defeat myself internally
like i began to be like you're a terrible wife you should be further along by now you should
be more gracious all the different things about what was going on and it got really silent in our
room and i'm in my head just beating myself up and from the living room comes a noise and unprompted
are my four kids singing at the top of their lungs jesus loves me and i remember in that moment just
sinking because it was like oh my gosh you love me so much like oh wow and it was in that moment
that grace began to like flood my heart again for where i was and you value me so much i don't have
to be further along like every lie that was in my head this one simple phrase of jesus loves me
was like just the thing to pull me out of this dark hole that i was going into and that was the
moment i was like oh i feel god's grace today because he saw me going in a dark hole and
i know he put it on their heart to start singing jesus loves me they were watching some other
random show on youtube like that's not what was there but they knew something's going on in our
home because they feel these things right like and they know something's happening and they began
to sing this song and it was what restored me in that moment for us to you know we had reconciled
we were fine but in that i left and i just want to beat myself up that we were still having these
conversations or marriage was still in a whatever situation i just was so frustrated and that was
another moment where it was like this is the grace of god yeah to send somebody else to remind you
that you're not in that hole that's the grace of god it's not always this massive sin and oh here's
the forgiving grace sometimes the grace of god is just going hey remember how much i love you
hey remember how much i'm for you hey how remember how much i paid for you how much i'm in this with
you and how much i see you and i care for you and it was that moment i was like oh that's the grace
that's the other wave coming in on the ocean that goes let me just wash over you right now
and i think that's sometimes where we we miss god's grace moments we miss it because we assume
they're all related to sin they're all related to whatever and sometimes his grace is just there to
be a reminder of how good he is and how much he loves you absolutely that's such a that's such
a good way to look at it a great way to look at it because it's a daily thing it's grace that i
woke up this morning right it's grace that they have food to eat it's great so we have water to
drink it's grace that we're still married you know it's grace that my kids are still
alive it's all great so when we start seeing it that way it's so much easier to
accept it right but the key in accepting is it's so we can give it right but we have a harder time
giving it if we don't accept it and because i'm not looking for it until it's the big headline
yeah you know and so if we can change how we see that god's grace is giving us what we need
ongoingly and look for that's why gratefulness and thanksgiving is so important because it changes
how it changes what you're looking for that's what we see and then it changes what you it
changes what you see right you know i i think about the fact that i you know i always talk
about my kids because kids will definitely teach you got a lot of things related jesus but i'm like
if i fix you hamburgers tonight with wings out on the grill you know what i mean and then make
make chocolate chip cookies after it maybe even make you a little texan sweet tea
that was a good meal but let me just tell you something every day i'm in the kitchen that's
right breakfast and lunch and dinner as far as i'm concerned every meal is a good meal but if
you're only excited about the ones that are that you know that really get your taste buds going
you'll miss the fact that i'm here feeding you every day yeah so the question is are you looking
at that you know and i have to fix my children's eyes and say it's not just this it's good all the
time because i'm giving to you all the time and that's why gratitude is so important it's god's
saying fix your eyes don't just pay attention to the big stuff pay attention to the stuff i
do for you every day the provisions that i make for you every day that's so good and it's because
it's like you think our journey right for all of us is to look like him that's right right it's
his grace that gives us that favor right that's unmerited that refines us right that corrects us
that covers us you know all along the journey so the thing perhaps that i needed 10 years
ago i don't actually need today that's not i don't have that same habit or that same thought
pattern but i have one today that i'm going to need his grace to get me through right this one
um so it's just being i guess to your point just being grateful for the journey until and we're
going to need it until we see him right and i don't want to minimize the fact that there are
headliners absolutely there are there are situations and sins that people will find
themselves in and they need to know that god's grace can cover that right even big enough for
that because he kept me and because god has been patient with me because i haven't been in those
situations and god disgrace was good enough for me that it's not enough for you because whether
we grade them or not correctly or incorrectly that's what keeps a lot of people from walking
in god's love is they don't think that what they've done can be covered right by grace that
there's not enough right but that's the beauty that's the beauty of grace there's always enough
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