As I wrote today’s poem, I myself wondered if the two rhythms would clash. There is that hurried, busy world that we live each day. In that world, I am pulled by all the demands of a very busy, chaotic job at times. Striving to give all that I can to complete the task, I worry that grace sometimes gets hidden there.
I am realizing as the autumn of my life is pressing in, that my greatest commission is to spread the love, grace and joy of my heavenly Father to all I meet. More and more I feel the urgency to spread His Wonderful Gospel. To do so I need His Grace to shower me each new day. I need the grace of yesterday which brought my salvation. I need fresh new springs of grace for today. Then, I need the flowing living waters of future grace for tomorrow. Just as a water spring brings forth new water, the living waters of the word brings forth new grace for each new day. Yesterday is but a memory. Today is a new day. I urge you to take time from your busy life, to spend time in quiet retreat with God. In Him you will find the peace, tranquility, hope, joy, and love that your heart needs to face each new day.
Grace for Grace
By Effie Darlene Barba
In the bustle of life
So filled with strife
I rush to and fro
With no time to show
Your love and your grace
With a tired weary face
It is harder to shine
The joy that is mine
I fall to my knees
To ask you Lord please
Let me show your love more
Let it flow, let it pour
This is my desire
Then to bed I retire
Feeling lost in defeat
In my silent retreat
In the dark of the night
Your arms hold me tight
Your voice I have heard
You whisper Your word
Or sing a love song
And I know I belong
Then at the dawn break
Refreshed I awake
To begin a new day
But first, I must pray
To say a Thank you
For Your Grace anew
Like a bubbling spring
My heart then must sing
“Grace for Grace, your love you show
As living waters fresh do flow
With mercies new for each new day
My sins and faults all washed away
That I may stand before your throne
And Call upon your name Alone
Your Glorious light so clearly shine
And show the path You chose as mine
The path that leads me to Your side
Where in your love I will abide
Oh, let Your Love within me Grow
Until it then does over flow
Unto a world who needs to see
Your love and grace—this is my plea”
Remember this. God’s mercy and grace is new each morning flowing forth toward all who come to His fountains of living water to drink. Do you know Jesus as Your Savior?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:16-19)
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