A Promise Kept is Grace Given

 I was too lazy to move out of my recliner to get a better picture before posting.

But the picture isn't the REAL story here...

Yesterday my husband and I finished the book we were reading devotionally each morning.

So today I reached down to my stash beside "said recliner"

and shuffled through a couple of options.

More Precious Than Silver: 366 Daily Devotional Readings by Joni Eareekson Tada

was the one I came up with.  (I'm sure I purchased it at a thrift store!)

"Shall we start at the beginning or turn to today's date?"  I asked my husband.

"Let's do today's," was his answer.

Don't know what YOU know or if you can read the print in the photo....

but my husband is a minister.

We read...
 "A minster who is reading this is telling himself, I feel like moving on to a job that doesn't load me down with so much grief.  But he remembers a promise he made when he was ordained, so he sticks with his congregation in pastoral love."

We shed a tear or two.

We sat in silent wonder.

"...a promise kept is grace given...

Strengthen me to keep my promises, God, to take them seriously, 
and to make the necessary sacrifices to fulfill each one"

So finished the page.

That the book sat (for weeks) in a stash beside my chair,
that we finished the OTHER book yesterday,
that we decided to read TODAY'S selection TODAY,
that these words were penned by Joni at least 14 years ago,
that we were so encouraged by all these "coincidences"...
there is no explanation aside from a loving, caring, sovereign Heavenly Father!