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"TODAY IS A NEW DAY" Kids Ministry Coffee Break 13: God's grace gives us the chance to start each day anew. Let us reflect upon this grace with intention to remind ourselves of Divine love in Christ.
Coffee Break 13 - Today Is a New Day
It’s about grace today.
God’s grace is beyond our full understanding.
Even when we have glimpses of it and bask in it…we eventually go back to thoughts that lead us to think that maybe God’s grace has limits.
To illustrate this better, I want to tell a joke.
There was a Priest who had lived in his community for years.
He was well loved and respected.
He was seen as a very upright man of the highest integrity.
One day, the priest hears from some of his people that a woman in the area is telling everyone that she talks with God.
Like…has audible conversations with God.
The priest is skeptical.
After hearing this talk from a number of people…he goes to investigate.
The woman answered the door when he knocked.
He said, “Good day, daughter.”
“Good day, Father” she replies.
“I hear from people around the area that you are talking with God.”
“Oh yes, Father. We talk”
“Well, can you talk with God now? I’d love to be a part of this miraculous interaction.”
“Oh, no, Father. God hasn’t talked with me today. I don’t always know when I’ll be able to talk with God.”
“Hmmm.” said the priest. “I’m struggling to believe you talk with God, please forgive me.”
“Well, I understand, Father, but I truly do talk with God.”
“Would you mind, then, the next time you talk with God, ask what I confessed in my last confession…and then you could tell me. Would that be okay?”
A bit hesitantly she replied, “Sure, Father. I’ll ask God what you confessed in your last confession and I’ll tell you what was said.”
“Wonderful! Thank you for your understanding and help.”
“My pleasure, Father.”
A few weeks later the priest hears talk about the woman talking with God again, so he goes straight to her home.
“Hello, Father. I thought I might be seeing you today.”
“Hello, daughter. I hear you’ve been talking with God and I wondered if you asked God about my last confession.”
“Oh, yes, Father, I surely did. I asked God if you had confessed lately. God said, ‘Yes.’ So I asked God what you had confessed in your last confession.”
“And…?”
“Father, when it came to your last confession, God said, ‘I don’t remember.’”
A silly joke, but one that communicates God’s grace well.
Every day can be a fresh start for us and God.
It doesn’t mean our relationship with other people don’t need confession, reconciliation, forgiveness, and grace too…
But we can know that we are restored to God through Jesus Christ.
You are a child of God, learning and growing and maturing every day.
God loves you so much to come to you where you are,
but God loves you too much to leave you there.
Trust in God’s grace.
Let go of the things that are holding you back.
Give yourself grace…because God has given grace to you in Jesus Christ.
As the great theologian, Chicken Little, said in the Disney movie… “Today is a new day.”
Live like the moments when you needed God’s grace yesterday have already been forgotten.
Press on,
Live better today,
and let yesterday be a stepping stone on the path of growth.
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