To Timothy, my true son in the faith. 

Grace, 

mercy, 

and peace 

from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Timothy 1:2 CSB

It's a new year and there's NY honours lists published of high achievers being honoured, there's the diet industry cranking up telling us about how much better we can be, and the noise around NY resolution and you've got to change X, improve your life here...

In this letter to Tim, (perhaps put your own name in here), Paul encourages us to start with 3 different things, & the first one is:

Grace.

Grace is swimming in the ocean of God's "for us".

We can't contain or manage or own Grace that is so big, so much.

Grace is God's love in action that we get to rest in. 

Grace is being with those people who love you as you are, accept you fully, and not only let you be you, want you to be you. 

That's like a sprinkling of grace, and God's grace for us is like the ocean, so massive, we can't use it up, experience it all, but today we can let it wash over us. 

Wash us. 

Hold us up.

Invigorate. 

Wrap around us. 

Setting goals, identifying things we want to do, to do better are good things. But Grace says you don't have to do or be anything but who you are to be loved.

Paul encourages us to rest in that, and as we do, worship the One who is Grace. 

#sunday

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