{"id":473,"date":"2017-03-07T13:34:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2018-03-07T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T19:25:36","slug":"all-i-know-isgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/07\/all-i-know-isgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"All I Know Is\u2026Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You may ask me, \u201cHow I know what I know.\u201d<\/p>\n

How do you know what to do\u2026?<\/p>\n

When life smashes your deepest, most precious, dreams?<\/p>\n

When all you want to do is dig a whole, crawl inside, and scream?<\/p>\n

How do you know what will be?<\/p>\n

When the thing you wanted most is lost, shattered and no one, or nothing…<\/p>\n

Can console you, in your lost dreams?<\/p>\n

You stand in a desolate, deserted place\u2026numb defeated, knocked off your feet\u2026<\/p>\n

How do you know? How will you ever feel the same, when all around you, everything is totally and completely insane\u2026?<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you that life won\u2019t hurt. I can\u2019t tell you the why of things. I can\u2019t give you all the answers you seek\u2026but this one thing I know\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

God, is, love! He does not change! <\/em><\/p>\n

We must not grow bitter or let anger seize our hearts or rearrange, what we do not understand.<\/em><\/p>\n

How can you say, God is love? When the most horrible thing in the world strikes at your heart and leaves you crumpled and wasted inside\u2026?<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you that\u2026but I can tell you I\u2019ve been there. I\u2019ve been to hell and back again\u2026I\u2019ve felt the despair of hopelessness, cried endless tears like grains of sand\u2026covering my pillow, there was no end\u2026I\u2019ve seen death and disease\u2026take lives I\u2019ve loved\u2026the only help came from God above\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

God reached out and took my hand and led me to a peaceful land\u2026a peace that no one understands, unless you\u2019ve been there\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Cry, my darling, cry. For tears are bottled in God\u2019s special place, where love and truth gives amazing grace\u2026to fill the heart that\u2019s broken to be mended when we look full in God\u2019s gracious face\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Grace is the only thing that saved me, when no answers of why, came\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Grace, unmerited favor, God gives to his children in this place\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

Grace is the balm that soothes the heart, broken, and crushed\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

When life is full of horror and we can\u2019t even speak\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

God\u2019s strength becomes our back-bone when we are lost and weak\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Let His Holy Spirit carry you at this time\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

All I know is that God is in control and by faith he will make us strong and whole\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

The choices we make will either carry us to victory or carry us to defeat\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

All I know is\u2026 God is the giver of life\u2026Trust that He knows best, this life is sometimes bitter and sometimes it is sweet\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

God is the answer, even when we face defeat\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

And if his answer is to carry us home…accept it with grace for you are not alone!<\/p>\n

Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill – March 7, 2017<\/p>\n

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