Growin' Up Gregory

So many of use things on a daily basis and trust them to function properly even though we are completely clueless about how they work.  I know very little about internal combustion engines, but I trust my car to crank and drive me to town every day.  I know even less about amps, volts, and watts of electricity, but I know that if I flip the switch my lights should turn on.  And I don't understand how wireless technology and data is communicated, but I trust that if I send a text out that it will make to wherever in the world it is intended to go.  When the angel came to Mary, she likely didn't fully understand what was about to take place in her life either, but she trusted. Read Luke 1:26 - 38 Trust God's Grace and Presence By choosing Mary to be Jesus' mother, God had bestowed His grace on her.  Sometimes we certainly feel like our calling or purpose in life is nowhere near as significant as Mary's.  And sadly, it isn't since the Savior is alre...

Often times we only see what people do because we aren't patient enough to hear or find out the reason why they did it.  We see it when politicians vote a certain way, when families make difficult choices that seem 'wrong' to us, and when people make life altering decisions that we just don't get.  But sometimes the "what" is actually less important than the "why." You may have a family member who moves away from you and takes their immediate family with them.  You are now placed at a great distance from your brother, sister, nieces, nephews, or whoever moved away.  The WHAT of that hurts.  But we must be patient to hear the WHY.  Maybe they feared losing a job, or found a better one.  Maybe a child was being bullied, or they moved for an educational or some other purpose.  The WHY matters a great deal before you get upset simply over the WHAT. In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas were preaching in Iconium when they learned of a plot against them to ...