Debbie's Great-Grandma Grace (and her mouse)...and our Great Giver of Grace

We were still living on the edge of the Ecuadorian jungle in 1986, but my father arranged things so that we could travel up to Indiana to give my grandmother, Grace (Robinson) Moore, the chance to meet the two great-grandchildren she had never seen before.

Here Debbie, 4 years old (almost 5), looks on as Grandma Grace shapes her "mouse", using a clean white handkerchief.  Once it was ready, she and Dan watched their great-grandmother as she made the mouse scamper around, up and down her arm...a trick with which she had entertained her grand- and great-grandchildren over the years.  (I'm sure they all remember!)
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"Grace"...an amazing lady whose name evokes an even greater Grace and the One who offers it to us.  "And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of his grace,  expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:7)

And what do we do with this Grace, once it's been so mercifully bestowed on us?  How about...

--"...set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed."  (I Peter 1:13)

--"Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."  (Hebrews 7:16)

--"And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things and at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work."  (II Corinthians 9:8)

"ALL THAT WE NEED."  I read a little story about a man who came home one day and told his family that all he had was gone; he had lost everything, and had nothing at all left.  Then his little boy said, "Daddy, you have me."  And his wife said, "And you have me."  And his mother said, "And you have all the promises of God left!" The man burst into tears and said, "What an ingrate I am! I find I have a great many things left!  God forgive me."
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Let's set our hope fully on God's Grace, "expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus"!  Thank You, Father, for your love, mercy and grace...and forgive us when we forget.