----JESUS NEVER CHANGES !

--"For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace."
---(JOHN 1:16 / NASB ) -- angelwing

---I HAVE A STUDENT in freshman English who is sixty years old. - He told me he joined the army to get the GI Bill, so he could to to college over forty hears ago. Instead, he went to Vietnam. When he came home, he said, he was too messed up to start college. He's had a difficult life but never gave up his dream.

For years, he's been haunted by nightmares that drove him to alcohol addiction. His family left him alone on his farm. Finally he got help and learned he has PTSD. Guess what the cure is? Get out of isolation. So now, using his GI Bill, he's in my class.

This guy could focus on everything that's sad about his story. Just listening to it brought me to tears. But instead, he chooses to focus on the new life he's finding after after all these years. He brings an enthusiasm to class that encourages me An attitude of gratitude, as the saying goes. What a difference it makes when one approaches life through the lens of grace.

It's by grace, he believes, that he's alive. by grace his family left him because it forced him to get help He found grace in the VA (veterans Administration). It's by grace that he found out he has PTSD. And grace that he can do something to help dispel the darkness in his mind.

This story has helped me to remember that grace is everywhere. There's grace for us in everything. And the source of grace is JESUS. Out of His fullness, grace flows freely and abundantly forever. ~~

--"Lord Jesus, thank You that you are the same yesterday and today and forever. Help us Lord to turn to You when life gets us down. Help me (us) to trust in You in whatever we face today. ~amen"
--Mornings With Jesus/ GFF~
--"The Same Jesus"// Matt Redman //<https://youtu.be/46Pq6StP0D4>
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]