The table of grace!

Sometimes I find God calling me to the table of Grace.  There is something in me that is always looking for the grace place.  When I was a little girl, my family would eat dinner together every evening around the 5:00 hour.  This was in the 60's and I would imagine most families in my neighborhood were clamoring around their dinner table as well.   We would often say our memorized prayer all together as a family.  "God is great God is good let us thank him for this food.  Amen."  It became a common prayer, that quite honestly lost most of it's meaning I suppose.  But I learned at a young age that the table was the place of grace.  That table of grace would eventually take on new meaning.   Somehow grace became more than just a short prayer that we prayed before dinner.  The table of grace is where I long to dine at now.  This table may be messy and often kind of sticky, but a welcome place.   It occasionally becomes complicated and cluttered.  As my faith  grows my table of grace grows as well.  It's in the heart that I notice grace changing me.  I long to sit and linger there to savor every moment.   It looks different now than it did in the 60's.  But I love this table.  I know it is often hard to understand this grace place.   Sometimes we understand it through painful moments.  Moments that God allows in our lives for His purposes.  Our hearts break at times at this table,  It breaks for those things that make no sense from a simple understanding.  Thankfully God uses this place to teach us, to change us and allows us to grow, so that we can offer this grace to others.  He serves us a banquet of grace.   We can be assured that there will be more served where there's more grace required and it's always enough.  It's at this table we're all equal.   We can all come to the table with what and who we are.   All of our tables look different and are uniquely designed to serve us right where we are.  I leave full, but long for more grace filled appointments, more cups of grace.  I know there will be many more!  Praise God, for His grace table is sufficient.  More grace please!

2 Corinthians 12:9

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

     2 Corinthians 4:15

All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

Romans 5:2

through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.