God's Amazing Grace

I have two new favorite songs, and for MANY reasons!

One of the songs that I love to hear on the radio and love to sing at church is Chris Tomlin's version of Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) Here's the video for the song. WATCH IT!!



Now for those of you who know me well, I'm sure you can figure out why the chorus means so much to me right now. (My chains are gone, I've been set free. My God, my Savior has ransomed me. And like a flood His mercy reigns. Unending love, Amazing grace) After MONTHS of prayer, I finally feel like my chains will be gone, and I will be set free.

But here's the GODSMACK...

For years and years, I've heard the song Amazing Grace sung. It was one of my grandma's favorite songs. In high school, I would go to BOA during the summer, and one my favorite parts of camp was when George would have all the DM's sing in harmony "Amazing Grace."

But to be TOTALLY honest, I never GOT the song. I mean, I knew what it meant, but it didn't sink in - get me to think, until last Saturday after Mike and I talked with Terri.

We were talking with her, and I was telling her about the good news we got last week (and the stress of work the last few weeks), and she said, "Bethany, it's God's grace that has gotten you both through not just the last few weeks, but also the last few months." WOW! GODSMACK!

I've been totally surrounded by God's grace and have been oblivious to it.

The last few months have not been easy months by any stretch of the imagination. But as the song says, and I now realize the full meaning of it: "The Lord has promised good to me, his word my hope secures. He will my shield and portion be, as long as life endures"

One of Mike's favorite songs right now (and he can play it pretty darn good if I can say so myself) is Kutless' "Grace and Love." Take a listen:

Many things in life are hard for me, many things can pull us down.

It's by grace and love that I am saved...and it's by grace and love that i am free. I am free...

Simply put, I've fully realized that God's grace is his gift to me; his love freely offered to me - his unending love. He knows that I've gone through a VERY hard few months, but he has been at my side through it all.

My chains are gone, I have been set free, and all from his unending love, his unending grace.