{"id":125,"date":"2010-09-15T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amysmic\/?p=125"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T13:14:09","slug":"face-first-into-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Face First into Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do you ever want to stop time?\u00a0 Patrick was videoing our three-year-old running down the sidewalk when she took a big tumble.\u00a0 She scratched up her knee, chin, nose and arm.\u00a0 When we watch the video, we see her playing gleefully before the fall.\u00a0 We want to say<em> \u201cStop!\u00a0 Don\u2019t run, baby!\u201d\u00a0<\/em> Yet, the video plays on and the fall is inevitable.\u00a0 We cannot stop time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Does the Lord watch His children and want to stop time as we are about to fall face first onto the concrete of sin?\u00a0 The Father of all time certainly could do so if it pleased Him.\u00a0 Instead, He lets us fall.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 The healing process draws us closer to Him and allows His glory to shine.\u00a0 The watching world marvels when we triumph over the bondage of sin through His magnificent power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Believers know His grace abounds, covering our sin.\u00a0 We walk in light because He has shattered the darkness.\u00a0 We have joy and peace though turmoil surrounds us.\u00a0 We live as <strong>\u201cthose who receive the abundance of grace.\u201d<\/strong> We\u2019ve been given <strong>\u201cthe gift of righteousness\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cwill reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ\u201d (Romans 5:17).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When we cannot stop time and a tumble onto the concrete of sin seems inevitable, may we instead fall sweetly into His grace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever want to stop time?\u00a0 Patrick was videoing our three-year-old running down the sidewalk when she took a big tumble.\u00a0 She scratched up her knee, chin, nose and arm.\u00a0 When we watch the video, we see her playing gleefully before the fall.\u00a0 We want to say \u201cStop!\u00a0 Don\u2019t run, baby!\u201d\u00a0 Yet, the video &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Face First into Grace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}