Extention of Grace being Shown

This Part of my life started way back around Christmas of 2007. I got an email from my Pastor at that time saying that there was two men that was feeling lonely cause they was away from family and friends cause of the war and cause of being in Jail. In this email it gave ways of contacting these two men. So I wrote both of these men a letter to encourage them and to let them know that they are being thought of during the Holiday time. I put myself in their shoes and if I was them I would love to hear Merry Christmas and we miss you and care for you and are being thought of. I would not ever want to be away from my family on the Holidays.

Well to finish the story. A few weeks ago I was interduced to one of the men I wrote to. To my surprise the person Knew who I was when he heard my name and was very thankful for the card that i sent him. We talked for a bit today. He was Shocked that a perfect stranger would send him a card cause he was the one in Jail. Now we have become friends and we sit by each other in church. I have met his brother him mom and dad now and he has a very pretty two year old daughter.

Around this time I was doing a small group studing about Grace and what it means called What's So Amazing About Grace by Phillip Yancey. While i was listening to my Pastor (that day I was interduced to the person) talking about Grace it came to me. I showed Grace to someone and became a friend and wished them to have a good life even if they deserved it or not, acceptin of him even though he did a crime. that I still don't know what he did and i don't care to know, FREE OF CHARGE, and I did not know it. That is what Grace is. God became our friend, Accepted us even with us being blacker than coal, gave us life when we did not deserve it and does not exspect us to pay for his grace.

So Now I want to thank God for this cause without God I would not have done this extention of Grace. Only through God could i ever Show Grace to anyone. Since Only through God I get Grace. I think It would be proper to thank him for this gift he gave me and then in turn I gave away without ever looking for payment. I was not ever exspecting to meet this one person but God brough it full circle back to me. I can not tell how happy i felt that whole day except that went all day long saying Thank you God and feeling like I was on Cloud 9. I want to thank God for opening my heart and soul to Grace. I want to thank God for Pouring out the Grace on me and to others from me. Thank you Lord God.

What kind of Grace have you shown to people lately?