Press on with "Grace and Guts."

Have you ever had to start over? Maybe it was a new job, or a move, or like me, the loss of someone you thought would be in your life forever? If you have, yo

u know that everything in our flesh can hate change. Yet, in those seasons, something happens. Something that sits us in a chair at the crossroads and says, "Are you coming? Or not?" It sounds simple. Trust me, I know, it is not.

When we know we can't get back what is behind us, yet we have no idea how to get to what is ahead, the middle can be a place where we feel like giving in. Have you been there? Let's be honest. We can shout all the praises, quote all the right scriptures, but our feelings scream, "It's too much! I can't! I don't know how!"

You know what I've learned? God likes those prayers. Those "snot in the carpet," raw, honest prayers that show vulnerability, trust, and a genuine faith that isn't perfect, but pushes through. That's when plans begin to take shape. Oh, we may not see them right away. Probably won't. But something happens in a realm we cannot see. Faith has awoken a promise found in Isaiah 43. A promise that makes new things take shape, new opportunities come knocking, new people we didn't know arrive, and new dreams come alive when we thought all was lost. His promise? To make ALL things new. That includes your circumstances where there seems to be absolutely no way to the other side.

If you can't see how it could possibly turn around, that's okay, because that's not your job. It's His. Our job? To cry out in faith and then "be still and know" that God will do what He says He will do. Why? Because the God of the Universe is crazy about you and you are loved. Today, tell your feelings about your faith. God is listening, and He IS doing a new thing. Press on with "Grace and Guts."