Water To WIne

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.  For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love  he  predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace  that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,  to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ." Ephesians 1:3-10

Turn your eyes upon Jesus.

Look full in his wonderful face.

And the things of Earth will go strangely dim.

In the light of His Glory and Grace.

The weather has finally turned in my coastal town. My fingertips are already in a chilling state. Rain falls for the third dismal day in a row. My baby sleeps fitfully under a blanket and his twenty pound body flexes as the first cough of his life overcomes him. 

After wiping my face down from a projectile vomit alarm clock, I pour myself a cup of pumpkin coffee and read the disheartening news of the world.
Death benefits denied to a fallen Marine because of Government Shutdown. A nation paralyzed by elected officials hired to run our government.
Instead of biting my lip violently and swallowing the bile that's building, I open my Bible to Ephesians... and I am stricken with a joy unforeseen and certainly unexpected.
God is in it and will redeem it. And that's all I need to know.

So, I will cling to that Old Rugged Cross.

And exchange it someday for a crown.

Have you tried the no fail method to making lemonade from lemons?