Only by Grace

As I face the possibility of death as the car I was in sailed over a cliff, and into a deep riven. My last thoughts were that I was going home to the Lord. I was 18! Blood was running down my face as I was cared up the embankment to the awaiting ambulance. The firefighters keep asking me questions out of concern that I would go into shock, but all I felt was an over whelming sense of peace, despite the pain I was feeling.

Peace has fallowed me through my battle with Lupus and its related health issues. Peace has fallowed me after a car accident left me battling chronic pain associated with fibromyalgia. Peace has fallowed me, even as I struggled to stay out of a wheel chair. Peace and God given wisdom helped me to find a path in which I concord the pain and the weakness in my legs and keep me out of the will chair. Peace filled my heart as I stood looking out the Hospital window after I had a stroke.

Peace has been the banner that has flown over me as I faced persecution by the church, because I was physically challenged. It was very painful being told that the reason you are not healed of your illness is because of your lack of faith. It was hurt deeply being thought of as being such a sinful person that God was punishing you with illness. It hurt deeply standing their listening to a pastor tell your husband to keep you away from the church, because you were deemed as evil incarnated. All because you battle a chronic illness and pain.

And yet as I battled the reality of being physically challenged. Even as persecution became an every day reality, my heart was filled more and more by the presence of the Lord. As result, people began to know me as a person of peace...For through the storms I learned what it meant to experience Gods grace.

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 12:9

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God Ephesians 2:8

You do not have to be in perfect health to experience grace.

You can’t work hard enough and earn grace.

You can’t be good enough for grace.

Grace is freely given to us by God.

Grace gives you a sense of security when it comes to your salvation and your place as a child of God.
And a sense of peace that comes with that intament knowledge of Jesus Christ.