Wow

This must be one of the greatest days of my life. Seriously. It's like God keeps showing me His love and mercy in so many ways. This thing with graduation and opening cards afterward. Who is this person anyway and why do they care enough to send me this check? Wow. And I'm up there graduating and I look out across the audience. Look at all the faces who are there primarily to see me. Wow. And Aaron gives me a purple rose and we suck honeysuckles and walk in the rain. Wow. Why does God show me such compassion, such tender mercies? How can I just pass this by? I sure didn't graduate because I deserved it anyway. I graduated because God is merciful and He chose to bless me with a reasoning mind and concentration and discipline. When I was born with the umbilical chord wrapped around my throat three times, that easily could have damaged my brain and made all of this impossible. God is so great; He has never owed me anything and yet He gives all of this. Oh, let the cycle not end with me! That my life would be a blessing to others! That salvation, forgiveness, freedom, security, provision would flow through me to others from the Giver of all good things!