Easter Grace

On Easter Sunday we attended church with Adam's parents at The Branch. Easter is a holiday that we usually spend with Navis' and we always enjoy our day with them, including the service at The Branch. This Easter Sunday, I could not help but reflect back to the service we attended there on another Easter Sunday.

It was 2007. Adam and I had been trying to get pregnant for a long time and I was heartbroken and empty. The Branch is a great church for young families, and on that Easter Sunday, the sanctuary was just packed with beautiful little people. The young children were parading around in their Easter best, smiling and singing. The parents were doing likewise.

And I just stood and cried.

I remember that hurt very well. I know that the pain that I was experiencing in those days was nothing like the pain of the Cross, but it sure felt like torture to me.

Little did I know that God's grace was waiting for me later that same year with news of a pregnancy. Though aided by doctors and more interventions than anyone really plans for, it remains a miracle. Then, just two years after the news of those two, another miracle... God's amazing grace visited us again, reminding us that He had it designed all along. And He's full of surprises!

So this year, I stood in that same sanctuary and sang Amazing Grace while holding my little miracle, while my two older miracles stood on their chairs and with their grandparents and daddy and danced to the music. And I again shed tears...but this time, not at all empty, but as I let the words pour over me, FULL of His grace and His love for me. "My chains are gone, I've been set free, my God my Savior has ransomed me!" I don't ever take these three for granted because for a long time, I thought they wouldn't exist. Praise God for my children, constant reminders to me of God's love and His amazing grace!