I am so thankful we serve a God who is intimate with us. Who knows us intimately--and whose love for us is unchanging. I am realizing I don't understand much about grace. About what it looks like to live in Christ's grace, nor about how to bring grace into my relationships with my kids and with others. I know and understand a lot more about rules. My prayer right now is that the Lord would teach me about grace. About what it looks like to live in his grace each moment....and what it looks like to bring grace into relationship with others.

I am in a spot where I am becoming increasingly aware of my complete and utter depravity. I am broken over it. I don't know what to do with myself. Maybe it takes coming face to face with your own depravity before you can really understand the grace of the Lord.

I am thankful that "he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion into the day of Christ Jesus (Phil. 1:6)."

I am thankful for this Lord who is willing to walk through this life with us. We serve an amazing God. A God who fully deserves all the honor, and glory, and praise. A God who I am compelled to worship and love.