God's Grace: Learning to Love Through the Mess

We are wrapping up 2018 and I am just thrilled at how this little devotional has gone. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about loving others and forgiving others, but we should never forget to love ourselves. Once we get ahold of the truth of grace, not only does it empower us to forgive and love ourselves, it should also prompt us to forgive and love others. Because, let’s be honest, there’s a Prodigal in all of us. And sometimes it takes learning to love through a mess to get to the miracle.(You can read the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15)The good news is, God never gives up on us. Recovering from bad choices you have made can be a heart-wrenching experience, but God is always ready to restore you, to give you a new start.In oh so many ways, this has been my story...recovering from bad choices. But God has restored me through his grace and I can love and accept who he has created in me. Desperately flawed but loved. “And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.”Isaiah 42:16Have a safe and Happy New Years!Peace,