Come just as you are...

Life is sometimes like the trees in the picture above from the nature trail I walk on.  A seemingly tangled mess of obstacles you have to dodge as best you can -- only to be unexpectedly smacked in the face with a stray branch.

I was reflecting on that today... the events of the past few days of credit card fraud, decisions to be made about autism work, and the ugly argument with my husband about nothing really --- nothing more than stress.

In the past few days I've cursed thieves, my aching back from not being able to walk, even my husband.

And today, the first chance in over a week to 'walk it all out' -- I came to this tangled web of trees, and through the middle of them, the bright sun making it's way through...

It was as if God was inviting me there -- to just stand in that tiny ray of light and just bask in his glory. 

(Sure, I'll go stand in the sun, as if this fish wasn't already being poached by the heat!)

Why would a God who is nothing but good, invite me, a gawdy no-good sinner, to come bask in his glory?

I'll never know that.

Grace, I suppose would be the only answer.

What I do know from today's walk, is that no matter how much I screw up, he will always invite me back into HIS light, saying simply:

Come.....just as you are.

I will.

Leave your failures, foibles, faults, frowns,  and just come to me. 

I did.

Look to me for grace.

I am.