Impacted By Grace

Why? Such a simple question. At times, it is the only one that occupies our minds, especially when we are going through hard times. When tragedy and hard times befall us, we so often look for the meaning in the madness. However, the truth is that rarely, if ever, do we learn the reasons why things happen.  The book of Job is, perhaps, one of the more well-known narratives from the Old Testament. It is about the righteous man, Job. The devil maintains that Job is only righteous and God-fearing because he has a good life, a large family, and great wealth. God maintains that Job would remain righteous and God-fearing even if all these things were taken away. Job then has everything taken away from him. His family, his wealth, and his health are all ripped away as he is left to suffer. He rues the day that he was born, but Job does not curse God.  As the book goes on, the reason for his suffering becomes the focus of conversation between him and his friends. ...

Photo Credit: https://safety4sea.com/cm-building-resilience-change-is-a-part-of-life/ By now we’re a few weeks into the new year and it is already starting to feel like the same old year. The news media is still talking about the same old stuff, I’m still doing the same job, I'm still going to the same old school, and I'm still interacting with the same old groups of people. In every sense of the word it is just an extension of the same old year. Most of all, I’m still the same old person I was last year.  I had envisioned things differently though...  I had started the year like most do; with hope for the new year . I had plans to attend the gym. I had plans to remake myself. I had plans to make this semester in school the best yet. But then, on the second day of the new year, I was hit with the flu.  And boy did the flu give me a knock out… All my plans for a new year were dashed as my new beginning was utterly ruined because I spent ov...