It’s all grace

This week has been full of hard conversations on Haiti.

People are struggling in ways that are impossible to articulate. I’ve been asked questions I couldn’t have imagined being asked in another lifetime. But desperation leads people to ask questions they themselves never thought they’d ask. Desperation leads people down roads they never thought they would travel. I’ve learned that I can not fully understand another’s perspective because I can not walk in his shoes, and I have also learned that perhaps, at times, all people need is someone to listen and remind them they are not alone.

My heart hurts. My heart hurts for the brokenness of this world, not just Haiti, but the world at large.

But each morning as I walk, time and time again, I am reminded of the grace of God that somehow carries people through their darkest times.

Simone Weil once wrote, “Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”

That’s what I am thinking on this morning. The grace that fills empty spaces, and the blessing of the voids - even if comprehending it all is beyond my mortal understanding.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.

And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God! I will see him for myself.    

Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought!

Job 19:25-27