Extra Grace Required

So many things demand grace. Loving. Living, Walking. Waiting. Talking. Serving. Listening. Forgiving. Driving. Working. Dancing. Nearly every relationship I've experienced, from family to friendships, deposits grace into my life. I'm so thankful. My identity as a child of God, and the grace offered to me there captures my astonishment and my gratitude. Perhaps you can relate? If not, I hope my record presents the joy and the struggle genuinely and to God's honor.

22 April 2010

Worth talking about

Here are a few things I have witnessed lately,
that if I had a personal "like" button, would definitely
receive my thumbs up:

-on my way to work today, midst a lot of traffic as a semi attempted a sharp (tight) right turn, the traffic in the left turn lane (that the semi might have run over!), kindly backed up to make space for the turn. No fingers. No honking horns. No angry gestures. Just kind people accommodating this larger vehicle.

-in the grocery the other night, I witnessed someone recognizing that the person waiting behind them to check out had many fewer items, so they invited the person
behind them to check out first.

-a friend of mine recently lost her husband, and her neighbors have offered to maintain her lawn this very summer because they know her husband used to do so.

These are just a few kind acts. And they are not media worthy.
But they display love, compassion, hospitality, and grace.
These are beautiful things.