Sunday, Day 20

Today is Mother's Day.  I got to sleep until 7am and then I laid in bed for over an hour trying to go back to sleep, but the kids were not actually quiet.  when I went downstairs Matt had made me this wonderful breakfast.  Eggs, sausage, biscuits and COFFEE!  Yummy :)  The kids decorated these cute little magnets with finger paint and made me a sweet card with their hand prints.  It was a great morning!

We went to church and the pastor read from Ephesians 4.  He spoke about actually living the gospel and remembering that you have already been given the gift of salvation by grace.  That you can't earn any gold stars for being a better Christian, but you can live a life worthy of the calling you have received.  Also reminding me to be completely humble and gentle;be patient, bearing with one another with love.  Then the pastor backed up into Ephesians 2:4-10.  I love this and it really speaks to everything that has happened in the last week. 
⁴ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions —it is by grace you have been saved. ⁶ And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith —and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰ For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

I really need to hear this today.  Last week was so difficult as a true believer and follower of Christ.  To hear people say that I don't love others like God loves me.  God just affirmed what I already knew today. AMEN!

Although, the message was full of light, the sky was not!  It rained all over my Mother's Day, but my children were sweet and my house was cleaned.  My husband was home and we were able to have a family day at home.