"Grace and Peace to you...2009"

Paul began each of his letters with the greeting "Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ..." As we begin 2009, I pray that you may live each day of this new year in His Grace and Peace. Grace is the ideal place where we thrive and experience the full life that God intends for us. I have been on a pursuit and discovery of the wonderful world of grace for the past several years, and in the coming days, I would like to share with you some of the things that I have learned about grace, faith, hope, love, and freedom. Our journey has been a long one that has taken us through and out of religion into a growing understanding of an authentic relationship with Jesus Christ. Sometimes through great pain and sorrow, sometimes with overflowing joy, we have found ourselves shedding the unneccessary thoughts, ideas, and burdens that we carried for so long and warmly embracing the transforming revelation of the 'grace place' that is been opened up to us in God's Word. We are grateful to the Lord for all who have shared this process with us. Looking forward to walking on together. Grace and Peace!