Family life is tough… I wish I could say it gets easier and less complicated.  I could say that but I don’t think it is true so I won’t.  It is tough for children, parents, siblings and relatives.  It is tough.

I’m emotionally drained today.

Yesterday contained one of the most difficult Sunday teachings I have passed on to Stuttgart Harvest Church.

Difficult because it was about me.  I have lived it.  I am living it.

Difficult because so many of my friends are living it too.

Difficult because I did not want to misrepresent God’s instruction.

Difficult because I wanted to hold His standard high and celebrate it but I  have missed His standard.

Difficult because I wanted to adequately communicate the rest our souls receive in His amazing embrace of grace… but I can’t seem to communicate the depth of that amazing grace.

Difficult because I want people to experience that grace in the face of His standard missed.

Difficult because words can’t describe the embrace of His grace.

Difficult because the only way to understand it is to experience it.

Difficult because I’m not sure I can plead with someone enough, correctly, in order to get them to jump into the arms of that grace.

Difficult.

But oh dear friends… worth it.

Hold His standard high… not for judgment of another… no!

Hold His standard high as a guiding north star for your own life… and live in His grace… knowing He met the standard for us because we could not.

His standard gets higher but His grace gets deeper.

Thank you Jesus.