5 Minute Friday: Present

This is the part of the week when we all get to be writers. Just take 5 minutes, set the clock, and write. Never mind that you don't think of yourself as a writer. You just might in 5 minutes.

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My 5 minutes on "Present"

I braced for the worst because I believed I deserved it. I deserved to have a lecture on how irresponsible and disorganized I am. I was already bashing my head against a cement wall in contrition.

He chose grace and it was an arrow right to my heart.

Grace is the one thing that can pierce us to the core and heal us at the same time. It was an arrow that killed all the ugly voices in my head. It hushed them right up.

We don't want future forgiveness.

We want present grace.

We all long for grace in the moment when we have tripped up big. Grace for the times when we just plain messed up and could use a do over. 

I am all to eager to stew on the ugly before I get to the grace. It makes me wonder how many marriages could heal themselves from the inside out if more men, more women, would bow the knee of their hearts to God and each other.