What I Learned This Weekend

I want to start this post by saying I'm so thankful for so many family, friends and co workers that have been there for me, checked in on me, stayed with me and invited me to do things. This weekend my parents came to stay with me. We shopped, drank bubble tea, ate wonderful food, went to church, had brunch and just spent good quality time together. Instead of a honey do list I had a daddy do list. Daddy fixed the pumps on both my toilets, replaced all my burnt out light bulbs, finished mowing my yard and got me set up with some ant killer and miracle grow.

I also spent some time at the office this afternoon decorating it for a sales blitz we are kicking off tomorrow. I then helped one of my co workers grandsons with his algebra homework. I love math and anything to do with numbers so I was pretty excited to get to help him.

So that's what I did with my weekend. However what I did is not near as important as what I learned. I was even more excited to go to church this morning that normal. Today was the first time my parents got to go to church with me here in San Angelo. It is awesome to get to share that with them. We have always attended the same church so it was nice to get to introduce them to this new part of my life.

We are still studying the book of Galatians. We talked about grace this morning. Grace is an amazingly wonderful thing. The preacher talked about how the grace of God is the only thing that can change someone. We sometimes think we can change people or if they do change that it was by something we did. Wrong. The grace of God is what changes people. For someone to change their heart must change and that happens with grace. All we can do is pray for them and love on them.

This spoke directly to my heart. Too often in my life I have believed that I can change someone, that I can get them to see, that I can make a difference and most times I end up at a loss for words from too many words spoken and broken hearted. But when we put things in Gods hands and let him guide our steps it is easier for us to accept when people don't change the way we want them too or expect them too.

Another thing I learned about grace and never quite thought of it this way before was: you can never be good enough to deserve grace and nothing you can do can be bad enough to keep you away from the grace of God. Isn't that so amazing?

What a great message to hear to begin my week.