Dear little one who probably won’t stay long,
If there’s one thing I want you to leave our home with it’s this – Amazing Grace.
I sing it to you every night before you go to sleep. I pray it for you every afternoon. It is my hope and dream for you – these deepest truths about God wrapped up in a song.
“…Grace…
taught my heart to fear and grace my fear relieved”
Relieved, Gone.
That’s what I pray for you. There’s fear wrapped up in your little body right now. The fight you put up? That’s a result of it. But grace erases that. Grace – God’s perfect-blinding-Holiness wrapped up in a person and given to us. This holiness, this God-presences should have been too much for us, should have vaporized every molecule of our being, but instead He walked with us, He lived for us, died for us, and gave us His perfection.
That grace can sooth every fear – relax every desperate need to fight. And in its place bring something deeper, greater, good. It brings awe.
“…grace, how sweet …
[it] saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found.”
Relax into that. Be cradled by it. Be held and kept there. Find relief there. Lost, misguided, deceived, trapped, believing the lies, nowhere to go, to escape but here – grace – and it can find you. Can save you. Sweet Grace.
“The Lord has promised good to me. His word my hope secures.”
A promise of good for you is there, plain as day, right in His word- if only you believe. I pray you do one day, because it is this good in the midst of anything life throws at you that is my prayer for you.
“Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come; Tis
Grace that brought me safe thus far and Grace will lead me home”
I know its God’s grace that’s caused you to survive the many dangers and snares. I know its grace that’s brought you to our family for a little while. And I know that it will be His grace that returns you safely home. Home to your family and hopefully home to God’s final dwelling.
So, one day,
“When we’ve been there ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun. We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise than when we’ve first begun.”
I hope we end up here together. You might be a part of our family for only a little while, but I pray that you repent and believe so that we can be part of God’s permanent family together forever. You, your biological family, us, I want us all there – one house, God’s house – swapping stories of His goodness, dancing, and singing with Him.
So, sweet child, this is what I hope for you,
Grace – sweet grace forever.
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