a Prayer for Growing
Father growing in you can be truly hard sometimes as you well know. It’s even harder when someone we love chooses not to grow and we are stuck with them driving us bonkers sometimes! You just know Father how hard it can be to have adult children running around committing all acts of chaos!

Father we really want to find the balance between loving and taking authority between being nice (and kind) and setting those boundaries we need to set. We always wonder if we are right or wrong whenever our hearts are right before you and we just want to do the right things so very badly.
Other times Father we get so tired of doing the right thing we want to run away and give up because we are just so tired of it all. Thank you that we can talk to like a real person because you are a real person. When we receive you into our lives you take on the whole package of who we are. We know we need renovation but you don’t just knock us down, flatten us and start all over again.

You know our frame and remember that we are dust. You know what we need to do but you are patient towards us and lead us in what we need to do one step at a time. by learning of your patience and love toward us we learn to have patience with others. Help us to be like you and see like you and live the way you would like us to live. in Jesus’ name we pray. amen

Not running but overcoming: by Laura Grace

Three months ago I got hired for a job I didn’t want that I wasn’t seeking. My husband told me about it one day and I said NO but we needed the money so I wound up taking the job.

This mission of Grace so far this year has been SO Much different than I thought it would be when I started out. all these plans to travel everywhere in my little pink car. I never dreamed I’d be pounding thousands of miles on it going to an apartment bui…lding every day nobody wanted to work at. Today this tenant told me I’m the 7th manager and it was built in 2011.

It’s a hard place to work, harder then the last apartment manager job I had. I was so scared of it and I wanted to RUN the first few weeks there every day I wanted to run. I cried and ranted on the way home and said “I can’t do this” …..here I am tomorrow marks 3 months since I got hired there.

The office is all spiffed up and orderly. the boss wants to keep me and says how impressed she is with me. Most of the tenants love me. I have mastered about 90% of the job now. I didn’t go on more than a handful of book signings but I am amazed at what God has helped me overcome. fears, terror, anger, all kinds of things. Injustices that made me want to dish out a piece of my mind and I showed love instead.

My patience has been stretched so thin at times I’ve thought I would go to pieces. Anyway I told the boss I’ll stay until she gets someone trained. It’s still too far to drive every day all winter long it’s just not practical. but ….I AM NOT RUNNING

I am overcoming. Grace to Grow-It’s worth more than we think!

Transparent and in the Light: Rocking the boat Grace to the Rescue by Laura Grace​

-So the problem isn’t that I didn’t give my heart to Jesus, or that I didn’t study and pray recently, nor that I am just rebellious or falling away or “washed up.” What happened is worry took ahold of my heart when I was reading an email from a friend of mine.

There’s a story about Jesus’s friend in the bible, their brother Lazarus died and she said “Lord if you’d been here he wouldn’t have died!” She was upset with him! He patiently let her know he was going to do a new thing and went and raised Lazarus from the dead.

Nobody died yesterday but I was upset and rocking the boat Because I was worried and a bit afraid of what God was going to seemingly “allow next” in my life and the lives of my family and loved ones. Ever feel that way? Just be honest! Father I trust you but really what ARE You going to ALLOW NEXT? Maybe we don’t have a brother named Lazarus but we still wonder sometimes;

“Father what is going on here? Why did you not intervene? I was having faith Father for “THIS” thing not to happen and now IT DID HAPPEN anyway!” How can I trust you if you won’t answer my prayers? (That’s basically what she was saying, as she had sent word to Jesus Lazarus was sick and needed help and he didn’t come “on time” according to her timetable!). So we add to the problem by rocking the boat and getting upset and trying to decide just what to think about this what I call “unacceptable situation” whatever it may be. I like to think I’d switch from faith to seeking wisdom right away friends but it doesn’t always happen that way.

SO if you got upset, rocked the boat, worried a little too much and didn’t feel very Christ like yesterday don’t despair! It happens to the best of us, yes it does. Even us who have been serving God a very long time. If we are honest, there are days we just freak out a little bit. With Love and blessings,

Laura Grace

Transparent in the light # 7

I was thinking today how forgiveness takes huge weights off our spirit and soul. Sometimes we feel heavy and sad and don’t understand we just need to go down the list and start forgiving people who have hurt us and just pray for them. After I do this I always feel light as a feather. We can’t change anything or anyone by holding grudges or re living the pain. better to say restore me and let them go free. Lots of times in traffic If I am almost hit or cut off after I get over the shock I say Father bless them forgive them, help them drive better. I have Let God train me not to be a retaliator. We have to decide who we want to be.

I needed AC for the house we live in. It’s very hot and almost unbearable so I prayed

and asked God to please help me get AC in the house. One day I was in the small

grocery store where we lived and inquired as to whether our very small hardware

store sells AC units or not. The owner said; “no but I have one I am not using any more”

Turns out my attempts to get a new one failed as the hardware store in a town close by

had no units that would fit our small windows. The hardware store here in our town does

not sell AC units. the temp was climbing up to the 90’s this weekend.

When I saw the used AC unit for sale I thought it looked way too big for our window!

but In my heart I was led to have my husband go measure. Lo and behold it was exactly

the right size for our window! We got it cheaper it fit and it all started because of a desire

of my heart I asked the Lord about. this has happened so many times in my life I have

lost count! God you as so Good to me. Thank you heavenly Father I do love you so!

Til next time!

Laura Grace