Grateful Over Grace

I was just thinking. (And, yes I am aware that I probably spend too much time thinking, lol!) I was thinking about the woman that I want to be verses the woman that I am. (Hold the chuckles for later...I am a work in progress. I always will be!)

I want to be a graceful woman.

But not the way most people would think.

To explain this for the purpose of my blog: The dictionary defines grace as elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action. A pleasing or attractive quality, favor or good will, receiving a positive benefit that one does not deserve to receive.

God's grace is the reason I have been given my salvation. And I want to be graceful and grateful for what He has given to me. So that means I can be graceful in beauty of form, manner, motion, or action.

This to me means living by bringing honor to God in the way I act, talk, present myself, assist others, and choose my attitude for the day.

I can be an elegant and graceful woman showing my thanks and gratitude for the grace I have received. And those types of qualities are favored. Living a Christ-centered life is how I strive to live my life.

I can't imagine that living a life honoring God in my thoughts, actions, and deeds would not being living as a beautiful and graceful woman. To me that's what beauty is. It's so much more than skin deep.

I'm just find myself so grateful for the grace that God has given to me. I know I didn't earn it or deserve it. But, it's such a beautiful gift, that I want to be just as beautiful. I am so grateful for the grace that I have received, and I want to radiate that beautiful gift in the life that I live.

It may be difficult to understand what I am explaining, and it may be something that is beyond the blog. I just know that the grace I have received, I don't take for granted, and I want to live it's beauty by creating and leaving behind beautiful things with it. If I just hold on to it, yet do nothing in this life to make a difference, does that really bring honor to God?

I don't think anything more beautiful than God's grace exists, and I hope my life and actions reflect that.

Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIV)
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹not by works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.