A Spring of Grace

 Swan on the River Tay at Broughty Ferry, Scotland - December 2011

Dipped into Margaret Silf's '2012 - A book of grace-filled days' for January 2nd. She writes:-


What was it that first drew your heart more consciously toward God? Perhaps a glimpse of the mystery - something you did not understand but intuited in a moment of deep peace - or of profound relationship with another person, or of awe and wonder in some aspect of God's creation. 


In such moments, a spring of grace breaks into our lives and potentially changes everything. Keep those moments alive. Let them remain alive in you and continue to empower and assure you.

A mystery beyond

All creation is striving to bring forth a mystery beyond itself, 

a kingdom of peace and justice. 

The created world models it, 

the prophets foretell it, 

the psalmist celebrates it, 

and Jesus shows us what it looks like in reality. 

All of these invite us to let God’s kingdom come to birth in our own lives.

—Excerpted from 2012: A Book of Grace-Filled Days 

by Margaret Silf