Grace and Peace... you're gonna need it!

To Titus, my true child in a common faith:

Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

(Titus 1)

Paul told everyone he wrote to that he prayed for them. (The only reason we doubt that is because of how often we fail to pray for those we tell we will...) Often before that prayer he would give this blessing, this pre-prayer if you will: "I am asking God through Christ to give you Grace and Peace... because I know in your situation you're going to need it!" We all truly do. Grace: God's ability to do what we cannot: endure trials, make decisions, give when we think we have no more to give, be saved... and on we could go.  And Peace: that inner calm that we know all is well because God is, God cares, God can, God has, and God will.  "Children in the faith", children of God, trust in and cling to those truths. May we believe and receive His grace and peace in such a way today that at the end of the day we will say: "Look what God has done, just like He said He would."