Salty Ginger

Honestly this clip of Mary on the cliff shows it better than anything I could say. There are seasons that should have taken me out. I'm serious. Nights I didn't think I'd make it to morning, and times I stood at the edge of myself with nothing left to hold onto. That's why this scene wrecks me every time I watch it. Mary isn't just sad up there. She's done. She lets go of the last little piece of hope she had and watches it fall. And then a bird flies by. That's it. No thunder, no big voice from heaven, just a bird. But it's enough to make her look up, and I really believe that's how God works most of the time. He doesn't always yank you off the cliff. Sometimes He just gives you one small reason to step back, and then He comes looking for you. Later that same night Jesus finds her and calls her by her real name, a name she hadn't heard in years. So if you're still here and still in your right mind after everything you've been through, that's not luck. That's grace. Isaiah 43:2 says when you walk through the fire you won't be burned, and I've lived that. Give Him praise, because you don't even look like what you've been through either.