Grace that replenishes
"Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things we've kept." -Rich Mullins I took this picture last fall in Rocky Mountain National Park. I look at it and wonder, "How can something so delicate grow in something so rugged, rough and untouchable?" I'm amazed. Even rocks have spaces waiting to be filled. Even something as infertile and unforgiving as a stone has enough to nurture, support, and sustain the plants and trees that adorn it. Living, colorful foliage fill in the scars that have been dealt over time. Despair is easy to flirt with when pain brings fissures to the surface. But something I see the clearest in our situation is that God has showed us those cracks, those imperfections, all so that He can fill them. If we don't see our gaps, we don't see our need for a God. If we don't see our need, we don't cherish that relationship or set aside time to nurture it. It's that simple. In Luke 8 ,