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Stories of people’s lives are so fascinating – the journey itself, the intersections of chance and providence, the losses and gains, and all the faces…all the faces and places along the way.<\/p>\n

Mike Weaver, of the band\u00a0Big Daddy Weave<\/a>,\u00a0and Jason Ingram have written this beautiful song My Story <\/em>that illustrates something of how our story gets woven across time. There is actually very little “chance” involved. Even our failures and missed opportunities become priceless threads in the finished texture of a life.<\/p>\n

If I told you my story it would include the bewilderment of a little girl abandoned by her daddy while still at home with us. I was second of four children, the only girl. My mother was beautiful in every way a child could understand. She loved us fiercely and cared for us alone…for what seemed a forever, for a child. Then my step-dad entered our lives, and I\u00a0understood the love of a father for the first time.<\/p>\n

Not long after that, we were welcomed into a circle of neighbors who invited us to their church. This was an altogether different experience for us, and it was among those people that I was introduced to God. It was then that something new and yet strangely familiar came to me…still a little girl. A God-love, an other-world kind of love that pulled me close…closer than even the tender protective\u00a0hug of my sweet mama. A love that I recognized was present with me even, especially,\u00a0in the years of hard. God.<\/p>\n

He was there all along…and He didn’t give up on us. He will never abandon us.\"Blog<\/a>Photo Credit: YouTube.com<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)<\/span>.<\/em> – Ephesians 2:4-5<\/a><\/p>\n

…and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, <\/span>\u00a0<\/sup><\/span>not a result of works, so that no one may boast.<\/span> For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. – <\/span><\/em>Ephesians 2:6-10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

My story, like that of the song My Story<\/em>, is infused and bubbles over with a love that has altered my life forever…<\/p>\n

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Worship<\/a> with me:<\/p>\n

If I told you my story
\nYou would hear hope that wouldn’t let go
\nIf I told you my story
\nYou would hear love that never gave up
\nIf I told you my story
\nYou would hear life but it wasn’t mine<\/em><\/p>\n

If I should speak then let it be<\/p>\n

Of the grace that is greater than all my sin
\nOf when justice was served and where mercy wins
\nOf the kindness of Jesus that draws me in
\nTo tell you my story is to tell of Him<\/p>\n

If I told you my story
\nYou would hear victory over the enemy
\nIf told you my story
\nYou would hear freedom that was won for me
\nIf I told you my story
\nYou would hear life overcome the grave<\/p>\n

If I should speak then let it be
\nThis is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long*<\/p>\n

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What is your story? My prayer is that you also see that God has etched Himself into every circumstance of your life. He is here with us…always. I would love to hear your story…<\/p>\n

[Postscript: The last line of the song My Story <\/em>comes from the song Blessed Assurance, <\/em>a great old hymn all our kids know and sing along with us. Don’t miss that one, if you don’t know it – in links below.]<\/p>\n