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Here’s today’s spoonful of courage. You know you may have noticed that I’m
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always wearing a surgical hat. It’s actually a do-rag that I use. I want to give you one reason why I do this.
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Especially with the COVID crisis, I’ve been getting my haircuts at home and my 12 year old son.
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Charlie has been cutting my hair> You may notice it’s uneven and there’s some
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patches that are exposed. And it’s kind of all over the place. If you think my haircut’s bad I want to tell
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you a story about Charlie when he was mowing the yard. He just started to learn how to mow the yard we have a riding
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mower. Last summer Charlie was zigzagging all over the place doing
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figure of eights in the yard. Cutting the grass and

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watching it made me more and more frustrated as I realized that I was gonna have to come and
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and clean up uh after his mess. I was uh tempted to come down on Charlie and really
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kind of beat him over the head and get him to go back and mow the grass. Do the right thing!
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As I began to think about the situation, I realized that Charlie was just like any 12 year old boy. He was just having
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fun doing wheelies on the riding lawn mower. I wonder sometimes if our heavenly Father doesn’t
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see us that way. Often He sees the things that we’re doing and sees those
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patches–those holes that we have as we in our own strength–when we try to cut the grass in our own power.
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And often, God as our heavenly Father comes in and makes up the difference. He makes up
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for our inadequacies. That’s what the Bible calls grace. Isn’t interesting if you read each one of
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Paul’s epistles at the end there’s always some mention of grace. “Grace be
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with you all.” Grace is even more than just our salvation of God making up the
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difference for us morally when we don’t measure up to his perfect standard God empowers. He strengthens.
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He illuminates. He equips us to do the things that He calls
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us to do. His grace makes up the difference.
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I’m Dr. Chuck Page, the best guy to see on the worst day of your life please subscribe and share.
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