Grace Full

Yesterday morning, after taking a quick moment to scan through my phone, I came away grieving. Between email, Facebook, and texts, I saw people needing prayer for wisdom while dealing with a difficult situation at their daughter's school, friends grieving for friends lost during the current crisis in their home in the Middle East, a prayer request from my home church for a husband that lost a wife and a young daughter in a car accident, not to mention thinking about my own team mates who are struggling to learn an insanely difficult language, all while trying to make sense of a new culture.

The day before yesterday, God had impressed a specific verse on me while reading John 1: "For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace." (v. 16) God has taught me so much from the book of John since we arrived in Japan, and that morning was no exception. 

Tears came to my eyes as I started to pray...not for deliverance from their current situation, but for grace. Only grace. The grace to bear the trials that God alone allowed to be placed in their lives, and for the grace that He alone can give. "Grace upon grace."

When I feel like the worst mother/wife/Christian/[fill in the blank] in the world...grace.

When I struggle with language...grace.

When all I want to do is go back to America and familiarity and English...grace.

Because He has enough and He IS enough.