Best. VBS. *EVER*!!!

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Greetings & Blessings Fam & Friends of #TeamMissionAccess!

Now anyone who has been around church or raised in church is all too familiar with “VBS” (i.e. code word for Vacation Bible School). Suffice to say Our Awesome Lord is allowing me to experience the Joy of My Own Personal VBS that can only be described as Extreme Summer Sanctification.

First let’s look at our Scripture Focus found in 2 Corinthians 12:9 NASB:

⁹ And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.”

Languishing in prison, the Apostle Paul penned some of the most mind-blowing truths about Grace that all but elude our instant-feedback society today. Rather than a rant about his “thorn in the flesh” Paul calmly soothes our troubled souls with his God-breathed peace about the sufficiency of Grace that comforts like none other.

Speaking of languishing…

What began on April Fool’s Day (my first clue) as what I perceived to be a no-brainer bath remodel to make our shower accessible has morphed into anything but. Being highly hygiene-motivated after a showerless season, I pounced at the first opportunity to clean up with an experience that frankly hearkened back to Nazi death camp accommodations. Yet still hanging on to hope, I text our vanishing contractor on Monday as to his ETA? To which he replies: *Thursday*?!!

He nonchalantly adds: ‘Is everything OK?

Of all the initial responses swirling about in my seething skull (including spray-painting “Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here” on the bathroom door ala Dante’s Inferno), I respond simply; “IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL.” Yeah verily for that response God gets ALL the glory!  Perhaps there is hope for me–for us–yet! 

In His Accessible Grace,

Linda