A simple yet profound prayer request was asked in Bible study last week: Please pray that God can give me the grace to see them the way He does.
Those words stuck with me for the week and will continue to be words I pray and live by.
Later on in the week my friend and I looked back at old pictures and posts from previous blogs of middle school years. As I sat in Starbucks reading the words I wrote as a 12 and 13 year old I couldn't help but laugh at my words and old pictures, remember where I was at and think about how far I've come, grown and matured since then.
I was embarrassed to a degree as I re-read thing and thought "What the heck was I thinking?"
Getting inside your early teen mind is as scary thing, I don't recommend often haha
But then the words of the prayer request from earlier in the week hit me in a beautiful way: that God can give me the grace to see them the way He does.
Wow. God never sits in heaven looking at us judging who we are, our actions out of immaturity or age appropriate behavior. No, He actually created us from our inception to enter earth completely helpless as a baby and grow.
He wasn't judging me in my helplessness, but provided parents who daily and patiently took care of me while simultaneously sustaining them and me in my infant state of being.
He didn't stop caring about me as my independence grew. In His graciousness, He loved me every state and even delighted in me.
And even now, as I write this as a 21 year-old college kid on the brink of graduation He is graciously taking care of me. God loves me when I think I have it all together and when I'm a complete mess wondering "Why is everything falling apart? Why am I hurting so badly? What is going on?"
He is my heavenly Father who is taking care of my every steps. So I echo the prayer: that God gives me the grace to see myself where I'm at from His perspective and that I can walk alongside those He has placed in my life and graciously see them the way that He does and love them the way that He does.
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