Grace Upon Grace With Sophie HudsonSample

DAY 2

I don’t know where you’re sitting right now, but I’m currently sitting in my little office at our house, thanks to the first day of a very unexpected break from school. For the last twenty-one years I have worked at a local high school, currently as our director of student activities (this essentially means I am the school’s cruise director), and yesterday our superintendent announced we will be out of school for an indefinite length of time because of the pandemic that currently has all the world on its heels.

It’s the middle of March. It’s springtime. It’s supposed to be the season for baseball and soccer and track and junior/senior prom. It’s supposed to be the point in the year where teachers start to wrap up their courses, AP exams loom maybe a little too near on the horizon, and seniors plan graduation celebrations. It’s supposed to look so much different from this.

But here we are, and it’s weird. We’re not even three weeks into this temporary new normal, and I feel like my perspective has changed in the craziest ways: a deli offering curbside delivery is a beautiful sight to behold, a forty-five-minute walk at the park is downright life-giving, and don’t even get me started about my profound gratitude regarding the two big packs of toilet paper we still have in our storage room.

A lot of times, I think, we want to jump past the weird to the moral of the story. Assigning some meaning can feel easier than sitting in the tension of what we don’t understand, especially when we’re frustrated that things aren’t turning out as we had hoped.

Given all of that, I am trying to remember that this, too, is grace. There is grace in the weird, in the unknown, and in the unexpected. Because when confusion threatens to steal our peace, we can remember and cling to what is true:

1. The Lord loves us with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:2–4). 

2. The Lord is our comforter (2 Corinthians 1:3–4).

3. The Lord works all things together for good (Romans 8:28–30).

When you’re in a time or season that feels uncertain, you can look to these truths day after day, knowing that even when life is weird, Jesus holds all things together.

Rest in His grace today.