you're gonna need to read this.

another blog to live by.....jami nato's blog.

seriously, go read her post from today and let it change you.

this girl talks about some GRACE. and she talks about it often. 

i've begun to understand grace this year like never before. i mean, it's incredibly refreshing. 

listen to what i heard joyce meyer say yesterday in one of her podcasts "hope for the uptight". yeah, i tend to be kind of uptight, so it hit home.

first, she quoted the amplified version of matthew 11:28-19

28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will [o]ease and relieve and [p]refresh [q]your souls.]

29 Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest ([r]relief and ease and refreshment and [s]recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.

Do you see that part at the end there? where it says you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet)???

joyce meyer pointed out that that is basically like a VACATION FOR YOUR SOUL. and not because god will take away all your problems. nope! not that at all. it's because no matter what your circumstances are, what situation you feel is impossible, IN THAT MOMENT, IN THAT CIRCUMSTANCE, he will give your soul (mind, will, emotions) a rest, because you can actually turn those problems over to him in prayer and he will take care of it. while you relax and enjoy life. LIFE CHANGED.

that's not to say that i don't freak out about stuff occasionally read: everyday. but i am LEARNING and go back to the cross instead of drowning in guilt and hopelessness.

so jami nato and joyce meyer have been working together to change my life and they didn't even know it. i hope it changes you today too.