Grace Place may be geared to the K-2 crowd, but I find I need it as well.
Yesterday at the after-school girl's basketball game, a cocky 8th grader, really pushed my buttons. Since he realized he was bigger and stronger than me, he chose to ignore my directive to leave the game.
What could I do? The vice principal was unavailable at that time, so I had to overlook the offense. Aarrgh!
I came home still licking my wounds. This morning when I woke up, I was still ruminating about it. I decided to have a heart-to-heart with myself. My unforgiveness was threatening to ruin this day as well.
Now on to Grace Place, last Sunday's theme was forgiveness. We did a Biblical skit on Matthew 18:21-35. A king wished to settle accounts with his slaves. The first slave was forgiven, but he did not, in turn, forgive the second.
As that message rolled around in my head, I knew what I had to do. By the time I got to school, I was able to pray blessings on that particular student, (a good indication for me that I had truly forgiven him.) Whew! What a relief. I can only imagine how miserable my day would've been without the assurance that I love because He first loved me. Or in this case-I forgive because He first forgave me.
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Its so awesome how He can use something as simple as Grace Place to get His truths across to us, and we thought we were doing all of this for the kids. He is so much bigger than all of this and us and His plan and timing is so unique and perfect in all things - even in learning the lesson of forgiveness (and in my case some times learning the lessons over and over and over).
Press on in His Name
Capt. B-Shorts
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