"That Angle, Though!!!"

I was SO HAPPY I got to go to church today! It is the first day I have been since June and how I loved, loved, loved it! I was so sick last night I didn't think I would go this morning but chalk it up to #determination #notgoingtoslowmedown

My sweet friends Jenny and Amy helped me in and out of the church. Keri (behind me) was in charge of the keys and making me laugh as I made my way back outside.

The sermon drew us in to Zacchaeus' life and invited us to remember he was the very "type" of person Jesus was most drawn to. Through God's grace his life was restored and redeemed and he was able from that day forward to see people through "grace-healed eyes".

Grace-healed eyes ...

I can't help but think of that as I look at this picture and crack up over Keri saying "That angle, though!!!" as I tried to get a good shot of us all.

Grace-healed eyes ...

It's impossible to look at others in the way Jesus wants if we are not aligned with God's grace, if we're off-center, out of focus.  To be out of angle impairs our ability to see things in a particular way -- or to look at another in a new light.

To have grace-healed eyes is to realize we, too, are Zacchaeus. For each of us needs the saving grace and redeeming work of God in us. NO ONE is above another. NO ONE. We are all beloved Children of God -- ALL OF US.

Do you recognize them? The other children of God?

I left worship with a freer spirit and perhaps even better eye-sight. It must have been for on the way home I recognized them, Children of God. The man walking down the road with a bag of groceries, the family entering the restaurant, the kids out running around in a neighbor's yard, the couple trying to reign in their two big dogs and get them in their car. All of them were so beautiful.

I have no doubt it was through grace-healed eyes I saw them and recognized each of them -- relatives of mine ... Children of God.

I'm liking this eye-sight. But by the grace of God ...

Enjoying the Journey,
Debra

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