You make beautiful things,
You make beautiful things out of the dust.
You make beautiful things,
You make beautiful things out of us.

            Sitting in the library, sipping on an iced coffee, listening to worship music, and reflecting on this crazy thing called life. My current mental and emotional state: stress. Stress over my classes and my grades. My crazy busy schedule. My social calendar. You name it. At times, I feel so incredibly overwhelmed. I so very often think to myself, “If I just make the perfect routine and stick to my schedule I’ll be peachy. If I do X, Y, & Z on my list I won’t ever be stressed and life will be perfect.”

Well, life doesn't work like that. I’m human and my life is messy, stressful, and chaotic.

But it is also beautiful.  

My life is not beautiful because it is organized or glamorous. It’s not beautiful because I have everything in order; it is beautiful because I don’t. It is beautiful because I am a child of the Cross. In fact, the messier my life is, the more beautiful it becomes. When is Christ’s grace more glorified? In a perfectly ordered life, or in one that is chaotic?

When my life is at its messiest, Christ’s grace is abundant. He swoops in and makes something beautiful from the dust. He makes my chaotic life lovely by displaying His perfect power, grace, and love in me. 

So when I’m at the end of my rope, feeling like I’ll never have it all together, I realize this: I don’t have to. I don’t ever have to strive for perfection, because Christ has already done that for me. In Him, I am a holy, blameless child of God.

So what do I have to stress about? I can rest in his unending grace, knowing that I have Jesus, and He is making something beautiful out of me. 


                                                     


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