from Gracie

to my beautiful beautiful brothers and sisters:
i love you and i miss you!!!



in my last email i wrote from lamentations 3:22:
"the Lord is my portion; therefore i will wait for him."


i keep repeating it over and over again
because frankly, it is hard to wait.
to just stay, and obey.


the Lord is my portion; therefore i will wait for him.
the Lord is my portion; therefore i will wait for him.
the Lord is my portion; therefore i will wait for him.
the Lord is my portion; therefore i will wait for him.


God remind us of your love
that all-consuming, world-transcending, BOOMING love
because we cannot do it on our own.
give us the right attitude of surrender, trust, and thanksgiving.
because frankly these things are hard to do.
hard to submit to your will, to be humbled, to completely trust, and to be thankful, especially when times suck.
and if we fail, remind us that you are gentle and kind,
our forever father, our faithful dad.


i listened to a testimony today: jubilee church: dan kim
and you could physically hear the love in his voice for God and for all of us.
he said: "...one day i was just reading the bible and i felt like heaven just opened up. and i just felt, just love, just the love of God. and at that moment i knew that God is real. God is REAL people. i wouldn't be here if he wasn't. and i knew that God loved me and i knew how much God loved me. and in that i knew that this is how much he loves everybody. and God loves ALL of you."


"...i wrote in my testimony that God is so powerful that he can take something like cancer and make it the best thing that's ever happened to you, because he used it to bring me back to him. im not saying that he gave me cancer or anything like that, but he used it. that's why in romans 8:28: '...in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.' "


GOD LOVES US. GOD LOVES YOU.
i pray that God fills you and me with his love so that we can be transformed.


grace