Poor, long forgotten blog, so sorry I've neglected you.

My devotional reading in the morning usually finds me following the latest entries on the Ravi Zacharias Ministries website called "Today's Slice", and Tuesday's entry by Margaret Manning really has me thinking about God's grace, and the beauty found even in the midst of suffering and brokeness. Especially since I find that I experience more of God's grace when I finally reach the end of myself. Not that His grace isn't there when I'm doing well or feeling like life is blessing after blessing...and not that grace is always necessarily apparent at the deepest moments of suffering. Maybe it's the bitter-sweet flavour of it in hard times that gives variety to life? Maybe it's an opportunity to experience the overwhelming love of God, which the spirit within senses but the finite brain can't quite grasp? Or maybe it's a reminder that He bears the scars of suffering beyond ours and has triumphed, which gives hope to those hopes-dashed moments.