Finding Grace

    
     It is so easy when you are serving God to get so caught up in what you are doing that you forget that the focus should be on your relationship with the Trinity, not the good deeds.  I have found myself doing that lately, so when I started over with my pursuit to raise funds for Bolivia (in January after taking a break in November and December) I began to pray in a new way.  I asked God to reveal anything in me that I was hiding from myself.  Moving back home was an eye opener.   I realized in a way how selfish I had become.
     Living on your own allows you to do things in your timing and there is peace and quiet.  Living with others requires working around others and not having the quiet that I at least was used too.  It was an adjustment for all of us.  I also was able to see God's grace in a new way.  It has become so much more to me this year than it has ever been before.  I am now laying down the fundraising at the cross.  I will still talk to people and be transparent.  I will still show my passion to go and serve, but the money is in God's hands.  I relinquish the burden of trying to convince people that they will be more blessed than me by financially partnering with me.  God is my grace and more than going I want to be close to Him and seek His face.

²²News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. ²³ When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts. ²⁴ He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord." Acts 11:22-24