Genevieve C. West

Truth without grace crushes people and ceases to be truth. Grace without truth deceives people and ceases to be grace. "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory,  glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth " (John 1:14) (from The Grace and Truth Paradox by Randy Alcorn ) This is the 2nd time I've posted this blog.   The first time, I received some push back that I wanted to prayerfully consider before putting this back out there and I've decided that I completely believe what you're about to read and I hope I'm not misunderstood.  Whether we're talking about extending grace to unchurched outsiders, family in Christ, or ourselves, the love, acceptance, grace and mercy that God has offered to us through His Son Christ Jesus should be what is felt most from us.  "Shouldn't you have mercy on your fellow servant,  just as I had mercy on you?" Matthew 18:33 "When

"A dream without a plan is just a wish." -Larry Elder RESOLUTION:  the state or quality of being resolute; firm determination; expression of desire or intent. A few years ago, my New Year's resolution was... to not make any more New Year's resolutions... And that's the first one I've kept. Ever. It seemed to me that the same people were making the same resolutions every year because they hadn't  accomplished them the previous year. I can count on one hand how many resolutions I know about that have made it past February. And I've personally never made a resolution that made it to the end of January, leaving me with feelings of guilt, failure, and hopeless frustration. Then this year I had a brilliant idea! This year, instead of resolutions, I would set real goals! GOAL:  an observable and measurable end result having one or more objectives to be achieved within a more or less fixed time frame. The reason I kno