6/30/2022 Another month is in its last day and time keeps rolling along its hopefully merry way. What hopes do you have for time? Do you want more time? Do you want less time? Do you want better time? Time is where we should have the least control I think. Do you know the future? Can you even plan today correctly? Maybe our hope should be to live our time fully?

This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope.

Does grace grow over time? Is time essential for us to reveal grace to others? Many things grow and mature over time but does that happen without thought and effort? Is living out an immature grace better than sharing no grace? Questions, questions. So many questions.

From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.

 

6/29/2022 There are days when hope and grace are slipping from my grasp. I MUST hold on or I will crash and burn. To give up hope and grace is to slip from light to the darkness where either monsters have power or I can become a monster myself. Looking at the lives of the worst and most evil people there is an absence of hope or grace. Their plans are for their own good and their methods show an absence of hope as they believe they must do anything to accomplish their goals.

This is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals.

 

6/28/2022 Hope is not a wish but a realistic belief good can and will come. The good should be based on our situation as the hope of a person living comfortably and the hope of a person living in sexual slavery will be different. Without hope fear and depression set in and can take over and our lives become a mere existence. For me this is a very real life experience of existence without hope and then living with hope. Hope is as essential as water, food, clothing, shelter and love. As a belief hope can be taken farther by becoming faith in God as revealed in Jesus Christ.

This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope.

(Hope fulfilled in that the cars have been repaired for about $900. A lot better than replacing an engine.)

Grace is not an extra in life but is essential and necessary to reach beyond existence to life. Without grace there are wars and rumors of wars at the personal up to the world levels. Grace does not work as a reaction but a learning to live our lives for the good of all and if we are a Christian to also glorify God.

From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.

 

 6/27/2022 Hope. With one car damaged because a semi slammed into me and the other in Jefferson City because it overheated hope is essential. Bonnie has to drive the damaged car to get the overheated car fixed. So we need a newer car. I hate buying a newer car because I always feel I am being taken. This is not to say sellers are bad but I just feel uncomfortable. Hope is what I have to have to buy a car. And money of course.

This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope.

When buying a care I hope for grace. I hope those selling will show grace. I hope I can show grace to the sellers. Is it possible if I show grace it is more likely I will be shown grace? I hope so.

From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.

6/26/2022 Today is Sunday and once again we celebrate a “little Easter” and the hope and promise of the resurrection. Life. Life is meant to be hope itself as a gift from God who created us. Life is found not just with God but in God. To be in a relationship with God is life!

This is an entry from my Hope Journal which helps me hope, beyond hope.

Sunday is a celebration of grace fully alive. We are told in the Bible Jesus was the first fruit of the resurrection and is not just alive but He is life. Grace is revealed throughout Holy Week and each step of Jesus sets the way we must walk to follow the Way. For Jesus did not show us the way but is the Way.

From my Grace Journal to remind me of our need not for agreement but grace in our relationships.

 

6/25/2022 I have been disabled for over five years now and during this time I have discovered the daily need for hope and when hope seems too hard to have hope in hope. It is too easy to center on ourselves and become in steps withdrawn, lonely, angry and bitter. The worst part is the only people we can take all of this out on are the caregivers in our lives! Consider the time, caring and even love expended by those who care about and for you. Through grace seek to encourage and be a blessing to those who seek to bless you. If they are uncaring seek to reach out and encourage them and their desire to care. If they are abusive you must report them to authorities so they can have a chance to repent and then redeemed. If they become more bitter that is their choice and not your fault. Extending grace can be hard and at times dangerous. Jesus knew that and still extended grace. Maybe this is why grace is so amazing?

This is a combination of my Hope and Grace Journals.

 

6/24/2022 The wonder of a good nights sleep. It is so easy to take what is everyday for granted and miss the wonder and pleasure of them! There is not just the physical rejuvenation from sleep but also the emotional and spiritual. Each everyday need can be enhanced by recognizing how they enrich our lives. Then hope and grace are strengthened within us and we see the importance little blessings make of our lives.