grace

Sometimes there are words that have so much meaning that they are hard to grasp--hard to understand. Or maybe they are used in a way that makes them seem out of our reach. The word "grace" is one of those words for me. And I actually didn't realize this fact until tonight at a fireside that I went to. One of the speakers talked about grace and shared a personal experience to help relay what he wanted to say. It was such a wonderful moment for me. Sometimes at church meetings there are small things that touch our hearts, we can feel uplifted by the entire meeting, but there might just be one thing that we take home with us. This speaker read about grace from the bible dictionary and I had never read it before, or thought of grace this way, but I wanted to share it...

Grace. ...It is likewise through the grace of the Lord that individuals through faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ and repentance of their sins, receive strength and assistance to do good works that they otherwise would not be able to maintain if left to their own means. This grace is an enabling power that allows men and women to lay hold on eternal life and exaltation after they have expended their own best efforts.

Today was kind of a personally emotional day for me. I just had one of those days where I felt inadequate, like I was not doing as much as I should or could be doing, and like I just couldn't get anything right. It probably didn't seem like that to anyone else, or maybe it did I don't know, but inside I felt these things. But when he talked about grace and shared his experience and read those words, it was exactly what I needed. I know where to go from here.