Worthy of Grace

           grace - unmerited favor

ENJOY THE WORDS!  "You are worthy of your own grace."

I don't know who coined them...but beautiful they are!

No one needs them more than I.  How often I find myself thinking wrongly about myself.  If only I would give to myself the grace I offer to others.

• It will all work out...
• Everything is going to be ok...
• You will receive every good thing you deserve in life...
• I belive in you...
• I feel good about your future...
• Nothing is wrong; you're just emotional today...

Ever find yourself in a situation where things are just almost too good...can it be true...is this happening to me?

Ever stand face to face with truth and once out of it's sight begin to doubt?

Ever take little revisits to old habits and thoughts and feel the 'draw' of their former power begin again?

My prayer partner reminds me that FEAR is 'false evidence appearing real.'  It's a good thing to remember that!  And how true it is.  

Though the acronym regarding fear is very true, just that knowledge sometimes is too little too late.  I find in my life that FAITH is the sword I can use to slay my doubts.  Take physical beauty for instance.  We are all beautifully created and therefore we are beautiful.  I never believed in my own physical beauty until I learned this lesson of FAITH.

• Faith in the simple truth that I am beautifully created.
• Faith in the direct truth as I look in the mirrow when I'm happy, content, and having made myself as artistically beautiful as I can with brushes, cosmetics, etc.
• Faith that the one who tells me that I'm beautiful is truthful
• Faith that I am walking out the door knowing I am a creature of the most awesome powers of this universe, possessing intellect, presence, confidence

Yes, it is faith in ourselves and in life in general that conquers the fears and immobilizing effects of doubt.

I will never rob a bank, leave a faithful husband, cheat on ny taxes, tell lies...but I can be destroyed by doubt.  And that's is why this topic is so important.  There are many perveyors of doubt...those who seek to elevate themselves at our expense and those who simply are mean spirited.  Their power is zapped from their being by my faith in myself.  Doubt is null and void in the presence of the TRUTH that I am a powerful, thoughtful, caring, woman of grand heritage.

Be gone doubt..I have arrived!  

We are worthy of the grace we would extend to another.  And all the things I've said above, I would so gladly, and with great conviction, say to another.  And I would BELIEVE it.

The same grace, I just extend to me.   And you too...accept the grace you give others.