More than Amazing.

Grace is more than amazing to me this morning. Do you ever have these moments? The kind where you can't help but look up towards the sky and ask, "Why, God, do You love me this much?"

I'm having one of those moments this morning. See, Jamie and Nate got married (again...) yesterday morning, and it was a beautiful celebration of two lives that have become one. Then last night, we had a bro-sis even on the roof of one of the men's dorm buildings. We grilled, we ate, we watched Princess Bride, and while everyone did that, I got to talk to one of my girls for over an hour and a half in the corner of the roof. We talked about past hurts and fears and longing and healing and the Gospel.

And so this is where I'm going with this whole idea this morning ... it all comes back to the Gospel. In my friends' marriage, the reason it is beautiful is that it is a picture of the Gospel. I look at Jamie and Nate and I see a little bit more of a portrait entitled "Jesus and His Bride". And when I talked to my friend about her hurts I have the confidence to say "that's not the Gospel" to her past abuse and the hope of saying "the Gospel is healing" to her present longing. The Gospel - it's at the center of everything we are as believers and everything we could hope for. It's living and for us and full of hope and, well, it's just more than amazing.