Grace…what a wonderful word!

Posted by Danny on April 18, 2010 under Uncategorized | Read the First Comment

Grace. What a wonderful word! It is good to experience grace from the hands of others, but when God extends grace, it is indescribable. John Newton, the preacher/song writer simply describe it as “Amazing”.

I witness God’s grace in a most unusual way this week. I call it unusual, yet I have had this same experience before. This was a week where I saw new life brought into the world, and where a much older life left this world for another.

God blessed our family with the long awaited birth of Samuel David Cox on Monday. He is a good looking boy and the whole family believes that he is truly an unmerited gift from God. Angela is doing fine and Grandma Carolyn is having the time of her life as she helps out for a couple of weeks.

Job said that God gives and God takes away…Blessed be the name of the Lord. This week we also witnessed the home going of an elderly saint, Bertie Dempsey. She was a faithful pastor’s wife and a member of this church family for many years. For the past 21 years she has lived by herself. Yet I still witnessed the grace of God. She was 90 years old and yet her mind was clear and very sharp up until a couple of weeks before her death. It was God’s grace that made salvation possible for Sister Dempsey; that made the home going possible; and it was God’s grace that reunited her with her husband, James!

Grace. What a wonderful, wonderful word!