Giving God's Grace

This morning in bible study we were talking about grace.  We are doing our study on the book One Way Love by Tullian Tchividjian (Billy Grahams's grandson)  Any way while Laura was talking and and others were sharing their stories of grace is when God opened my heart a little more on the issue with how hard it is to love the difficult in my life. (one being my step-son)

God helps me to give grace to Dillon, everyday!  God has given grace to Dillon through so many people in his life that has crossed his path while making negative choices.  There are times I'm baffled at what I see unfolds right in front of me.  As there are times when my own children look in and wonder about how I can keep forgiving and starting fresh with Dillon.  I'ts all by God's Grace.

I have come to accept (which here again is God) that God has a purpose for Dillon's life.  He must with all that Dillon is continued to be given despite how he is.  God knows.  God will use Dillon and others around him for a grand, amazing purpose.....so there really is hope.  Yes, I have doubted some and often questioned without understanding what that is.  But I don't have to know what that purpose is, in order to give grace through God.

Realizing this today has made things  a little clearer, a little less boggled to understand.....that Dillon's life will be transformed by grace.

I find myself making a mental note of this so that I can remind myself more than once so that it will keep me in line with always trusting God and allowing Him to use me in Dillon's life and others using grace to bring him closer to God one day.

This was written on a page in the book:  The one-way love of God meets us in our failures.  Our failures make His one-way love that much more glorious.
(I wrote in my notes:  I find it hard to give grace to Dillon at times, I fail but because I fail God can give me grace so that I can give grace to Dillon.  With God's help I can and will give grace.