Since my brain has left the building, I’m borrowing from one of my favorite writers, Ann Voskamp. May this bless you as it has blessed me:
“Hey Soul? so you know how there’s that weight that can hang on the edges of you, so you just keep holding your breath, so you just keep forgetting to breathe?
Feel the weight of all that melt like thinning snow in the heat of His words for you right now: “I will bless you.” (Genesis.12)
He will not burden you. He will not break you. He will *bless you* —the God of invincible reliability, the God who has infinite resources, the God who is insistent love. You can always go ahead & breathe—He will bless. You can always breathe when you know all is grace.
And that is exactly the order of grace. . . .
Notice how the personal blessings envelop you first —-
Then you will be a noticeable blessing sent out into the world.
That is the gentle soul-talk for today:
‘I will let myself not be overwhelmed with the season, but be overwhelmed with the goodness of God,
*so I can then overflow with the goodness of God to others.*
I will be experienced as a blessing *by others, to the extent I have slowed down — and counted blessings — and first *experience myself as blessed.*
The greatest gift God graces a soul with is His own presence.
~ excerpt from bit.ly/GreatestGiftforyou
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