Open the eyes of my Heart

Time moves--constantly changing. Never staying at one moment. Life moves--almost never giving you a chance to catch up. HE is constant. Constantly watching. Constantly interceding. Constantly giving Grace-- Grace for the TIME that I fail. All the time. All OF time--ensnared in the clutches of Grace. His Grace. For when I fall, my pride dies and I am caught. Caught in the arms. LOST in the arms. So, I get back up, walking ONLY by Grace. The very Grace that ensnares me for the TIME that I fail. All the time, I fail. Never being good enough, or perfect enough never giving enough, or taking enough. Never enough for this place. He is enough for all of TIME. All of failures. All of us. He gives Grace. Freely. Right now at this TIME, accept it. Let yourself fall, and your pride die. Let Him give and give until you are overwhelmed. With Grace. Until it overflows into your life, and friends, and family. Until you can't stop sharing t...

This Duck Dynasty mess is all over the media. Why can't someone stand up for what they believe? Why doesn't A&E just let it go? Why is the LGBT community going crazy over an answered question?  As believers, it is so easy to be upset and mad about the world and what it has come to. We can't even publicly declare what we believe after it is asked? Some argue that it violates first amendment rights, others say that you can't say stuff like that as a public figure, and others just let them fight it out.  So how, as believers, should we respond to what we know to be false? I would want to fight back. To immediately be defensive and show the gay communities that they're wrong and that they're just as intolerant as they claim us to be.  But is that what Christ would want as a witness--His ambassador?  We are free to approach the throne of Grace and receive forgiveness. So isn't this how we should respond to the world? Grace. Grace-the hard...