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The Grace of Elastic Elastic. It bends. It stretches. What a wonderful invention! But, way back when I was a teenager, I wouldn’t be got DEAD in pants with elastic. Pants were to be form-fitting. No elastic! Yuck! Many years later (not to mention three children later), my viewpoint has changed. Elastic is a gift from God. It gives where your body has given up. The thing is when we are younger, everything had to be perfect especially when it came to our looks. As we grow older, we see the wisdom and the grace in allowing some “give” in our lives. Things don’t need to be so uniform or so perfect. Elastic, though, only allows so much give before even it protests! Elastic has its boundaries too! Elastic is important to me because my body doesn’t always permit those clothes with no give. How many of us have unbuttoned our top pants button after a big meal? Elastic extends the grace we need to move around after those big meals. As you look at your life, what are the places where you aren’t willing to budge? Where are the hurts that run so deep that you can’t let go? Where is the anger so great that you can’t walk away from it? God extends to each of us the grace we need to move around in our lives. God is the elastic we need! Yes, God has boundaries, but God also gives us some of the elasticity we need to move within our pain and our anger. God’s grace gives us comfort within boundaries that protects us and the people around us. As we begin to enter the Fall season, remember the world is full of things that won’t move or change. There’s nothing we can do about that except…We can change how we act or react to those things. Extend the same grace (elastic!) that God extends to you in those areas in your life where it’s needed.
Grace, peace and lots of elastic! Pastor Dawn
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