I grace myself. I let go of my flaws. I accept I can’t always go according to my plans. Things don’t go according to plans, period. I grace my significant other, he cannot do everything I expect him to do. He cannot make manifest every single imagination I have. I grace our relationship; it does not have to follow every single timeline.
I poured out my heart to the Lord and I asked that He breaks me to align with putting other’s needs above my own because there is no greater grace than that. My heart cried out at that point and I said Lord, but there would be no me left and the Lord told me I don’t need ‘me’ to fulfill destiny, I need Him in me. So I am walking by grace on a whole new level, like I have never seen it before, like I have never known it before, like I never experience it before. Where regret has no more authority over my mind, where guilt no longer rules supreme in my heart, where my soul is no longer paralysed with fear of not doing; rather my mind is alert and my spirit is at peace to quickly fix what the errors are and quickly realign in the midst of what life is.
Life is happening and instead of it being full of regrets and reviews of errors perhaps it should be lessons learnt and laughing at your own mistakes sweet sister. Perhaps, being at peace with the fact that you are not perfect but your eyes are on the ball and you are being perfected: your light is shining brighter and brighter till the perfect day.
The truth is, every saint is not without error, so we grace ourselves first, so that we can grace others. When we grace ourselves, we have the capacity to be more accepting of others mistakes, errors and shortcomings. So I open my heart with everything that I am to embrace grace, that I may grace myself that I may grace others, that I may walk in grace, that I may receive grace of the Lord and the Lord would use me as an instrument of grace because this grace is sufficient. It is that grace that caused Jesus to die for our sins that we may have salvation therefore whatever it takes to live that grace, whatever it takes to be a source of that grace, whatever it takes, whatever needs to be broken, taken, distorted, destroyed and removed is worth it.