Divine living grace
swirling around us, watching
us
as a Father with a child
playing out in the field
Waiting, watching, hoping
that the child would run
back to Him
would fall safely in His
loving arms
when it was time to come
home
Hoping that their children
would turn from the world,
back to relationship with Him
in Him our reward
A loving God, desiring our
faith
our wanting to be close to Him
longing for our turning
away from our earthly wills
Offering to us
His grace, His love for us
proven, made possible
by the sorry on Calvary
the joy of Easter morning
and the birthing on
Pentecost
Grace
in the accepting, in the conversion,
in
the repentant heart, seeing the failures,
the
wrongness of human designs
knowing
the evil we have done
repenting
before God
Saying
yes to the offer, the gift, the sacrifice,
relationship
once more with the Creator,
sharing
the cup with the Savior, being one
with
the divine, as best we can
in
that moment of saving
Not
by our woks, never by our deeds
by
grace alone we are healed
We
fail, as all the people have failed
We
need to grace, the gift, the sacrifice
of
the cross, the blessing of Easter
We
need Christ’s reconciliation
His
victory on Calvary, in the empty tomb
to
be brought home, by our opening the gift
and
letting Him into our hearts in the
moment
we
repent and receive God’s gift
Growing,
living, acting out
the
grace, the faith that lives within us
in
piety, through study, by action
a
natural response to the grace so freely given
Whether
we have to go back to the start,
to
the grace waiting for us before we know about it
when
we stumble, and we will, knowing God
will
bless us with his grace again and again
Always
ready for us to come home
always
eager for us to want relationship
to
grow in our faith, to share His love
to
the whole world, to the ends of the earth
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November 25, 2014
Three Graces of God – 2
-
merger of 3 revised graces poems:
-
edited November 25, 2014
Prevenient Grace – v2
Justifying Grace – v2
Sanctifying Grace – v2
November 25, 2014
Three Graces of God
-
merger of original graces poems:
May 1, 2008
Prevenient Grace
May 1, 2008
Justifying Grace
May 1, 2008
Sanctifying Grace
Walk to Emmaus
&
Prayers for
the Women’s Walk to Emmaus
Crossroads
Walk to Emmaus of New England
Walk to Emmaus
Luke 24:13-35
grace
love
Luke 15:11-32
Prodigal Son
Mark 10:17-31
The Parable of
the Rich Man
(same template
from 11/4/2012)
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