Over the last five years I have been besieged by pain and slowly limited in my abilities. Even as the medications increased my pain increased faster. Getting out of bed became a victory and going to the bathroom was a race. When I was still preaching the pain was so bad I would throw up during the sermon but would have to swallow it. Where was God? Where was grace? Right there with me. Over the years I have come to my statement of faith.

“God never asks anything from us that He hasn’t already given to us and God never asks us to go through anything that He hasn’t already suffered for us.”

This is grace!

From my Grace Journal. It was suggested to start a Grace Journal as a reminder of our need not for agreement but grace to guide our relationships.