Daniel Fast Day 19 :: Grace

by - January 26, 2012

I live life with blinders. Sometimes I unwittingly slip back into thinking it's all about me. I don't mean to — I know better — but it's our default. We are egocentric from the womb.

For two months now, we've been picking up one of Reagan's girlfriends for church. They're bus friends, not school friends, because they ride the same bus, but don't have a single class together. If it wasn't for that bus, they might not even know one another.

You see, Reagan has a brother who can drive her to school. She could sleep later, get there faster, and generally receive more middle school clout for being a car rider. But Reagan chooses the bus, because she chooses her friend.

And then Grace started going to church with us, and I thought what a great thing we are doing. A good deed for God with Mom giving Reagan all the credit.

Then last night Grace handed Reagan a letter that her great-grandmother had written her. Reagan told me it was a little bit about her and began to read:

Dear Grace,
I received your letter yesterday and you can't imagine how happy it made me. I feel that it was the best Christmas present ever. I've been praying that you would meet a girlfriend who would invite you to church, and my prayer has been answered. ... 


Leave it to God to use a sweet little great-grandmother's love for her girl to put me back in my rightful place. It's always God who is front and center, whose deeds get proclaimed and give him great renown.

Only God woos a girl unto himself, uses a girlfriend in the process, answers a grandmother's heart cry, and gently reminds another of his daughters all at once. God loves his girls. And I tear the blinders off, and see only his grace.



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Daniel Fast Reflections From the Beginning:
Day 1 :: Food
Day 2 :: Slow
Day 3 :: Foreign
Day 4 :: Hunger
Day 5 :: Life
Day 6 :: Free
Day 7 :: Praise
Day 8 :: Respond
Day 9 : Interruption
Day 10 :: Prayer
Day 11 :: Answer


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5 comments

  1. Oh my. Thank you Jesus! Thank you Dawn for reminding us that God is so much bigger than where we are and about so much more. This brought tears to my eyes as I selfishly think about sacred prayers I pray for the salvation of others who I can't be around or can't seem to reach with my own words. And some of us think that the other "Reagan" was an instrument in the hand of God....

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  2. Awww. This touched me. What a cool story, and what an amazing way for your daughter to see God at work. Oh, and thank goodness for the bus!

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  3. Real life God-loving stories like this are my very favorite:) And, it makes such a beautiful chorus - the grandmother's letter, I bet the girls' voices, your heart taking her to church - oh, yes!

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  4. Love this story! Love seeing God do it again! And a grandmother's very specific prayer getting answered, just so.

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  5. Oh. My. Holy God-Bumps. I'm in awe of this! What a fantastic story.

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