A Word for the Day

When things are in short supply, they become more valuable.  If this is true, then it makes sense that living into old age makes the years more precious.  What once seemed like something which would never end becomes like a book being read.  The pages toward the back cover are much fewer than those toward the front cover.  Perhaps, such thoughts are not just the thoughts of a man who has lived into his seventies, but also the reflections precipitated by the last day of the calendar year.   

One of the things which greeted me with the gray skies of this last day of the year was a most familiar song, "Amazing Grace."   One of the verses has the words, " 'tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home."  Seems appropriate.  Feels like a Word from the Father in heaven who provides all of us with our days. Regardless of what some might think, I will choose to regard it as such.  A Word from God for this day.  

We sometimes think it is our determination and effort, our hard work, or our good luck which gets us from one day to the next, but the song has it right.  Life is about grace.  No single day is lived without a goodly portion of it being poured out upon us.  As we count our blessings on this last day of the year and see all the things we can hold in our hands, let us not forget the one invisible gift of God which has sustained us and will be sufficient for all the journey including the very end of it that brings us Home.