What Does It Look Like?

What does it mean to trust that God's grace is sufficient?

2 Cor 12:7-10

Is it a constant calling on God?  A surrender to the pain of our troubles, knowing they won't destroy us?  Remembering Him in our despair?

What does it look like to trust in God's grace?

Tech week and other issues have afforded me the opportunity to trust in God's grace for my ability to accomplish this week...but what does that look like?  How does one go about being strongest when you are weak?

Is it thinking of God whenever things look tough?  Is it not worrying about the things?

Or is the grace something that happens anyway? Is grace the reason I don't cry in front of students even if I'm feeling lots of things?  Is grace the reasons I keep plugging away at a to-do list that stubbornly gets longer rather than shorter?  Is grace what keeps me looking determined and in control to everyone when I'm rather worried about it all coming off okay?

Is that was trusting in God's grace looks like?  Am I already doing it, or am I doing it wrong?

Am I strongest where only yesterday I thought I was weak?

Is grace being sufficient for me nothing at all to do with anything I do?  Is it like my friend deciding to give me an air-gun toy two months ago because he saw me laughing about it and me keeping it inexplicably in my front seat all this time out of laziness or vague plans to use it someday so that it would be ready today?  Ready to bring a smile to a student who desperately needed a piece of wacky joy?

Not because of some cosmically, divinely order coincidence.  Just the uncanny ability of acts of small kindness to continue past the first inspiration.  God's grace, just when you need it, because of the small lights in everyone's soul.

Of course His grace is nothing and everything to do with us.  How silly I feel now.