Sometimes I take a walk up Calvary's Hill. I think about the old rugged cross. I don't picture the pretty crosses you see people wearing. I think of splinters, heavy, ruff cut timbers. I think how hard it was for the Lord to carry. I know it was my sin on top of all that wood that made that cross so heavy. I think about the steps He took after being brutally beaten. I think about all the shame we put Him through. I think of the agony of hanging there for six hours. I wonder why He'd love someone like me. I wander why someone who knew every sin I would commit, knew that I would live so long in sin before turning to him, yet He loves me so. It is such an awesome thought to know someone would love me that much. I really like that song by the Cups Unconditional Love. Oh how true it is. I also like what Corrie Ten Boom said when she said It's not in the Bible, but I like to think that at the sea of forgetfulness there is a little sign that says NO Fishing! How very awesome is our God.
I wasn't there that day long ago, but my sin was. I'm thankful He paid my debt on that ole rugged cross. I'm thankful for the plan of salvation and that I can live with such a peace in my heart knowing I've been born again. I won't ever forget it.


Have you ever wished you could move away, new town, new friends, new name, new job, clean slate and try again. If not this might not interest you much. But if so, I got a clean slate when I was born again. I remember it was March of 2001, My husband and I was talking divorce. We were both miserable, but we loved each other so. I had started drinking a few years back and had gotten to the point of no return with out help. But the day I was saved I got that clean slate and that's just how it felt to. God delivered me of alcoholism, It was three weeks after I got saved when I happened to look over on my way home and saw that same old liquor store I had so often never passed up. but it had been three weeks since I had noticed it's existence again. God had kept me and held me so close and delivered me so completely I never wanted, craved, or desired it again.


 My husband got save in April on Easter Sunday that following month. Oh what a beautiful journey we have had and didn't even know God was such a marriage counselor to. On top of everything else He has done for us. He has helped us to grow and learn how to love Him and each other. There is no blog in the world big enough to tell all the thing He has done for us. But I'm gonna try to tell each week things He has done. I hope somebody gets some help like I did. Oh what Grace and Mercy bestowed on me.


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