Author: Covered By 828

An ordinary girl living an ordinary life, living out in the rhythms of grace in God's extraordinary love! A few years ago I'd have thought that by this age I'd know it all.. but I don't. What I do know is that the grace of God has been a blanket over my life, and I hope that through this blog I can share bits of it with you too..God bless! P.S: Abigail is my pen name, but it's actually much more to me now - God called me by this name in my heart in my past and He told me that I would be like the biblical Abigail. Then I used to wonder what I could possibly have in common with her. But now, I know. Of late, God has taught me that I have passed through the past of Abigail, overcome the Nabal. Now I must find the Ruth in me, the one who got beyond every cross of her past, and lived faithfully to a life of God ordained destiny!
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You belong on this journey

just as much as anyone else.

No matter how others see you

or how you have been made to think less of yourself.

And this journey has not been easy,

but this is also true:

beautiful strength and courage

is rising up within you.

The mere that you’re here is a gift.

No matter who doesn’t seem to notice.

And for all that is unknown,

you are still free to have hope.

(Morgan Harper Nichols)

Confession #1 I’ve never seen myself as the bravest person. The bravest thing I ever did was decide to stop clinging on to a marriage that wasn’t healthy for me or for anyone else involved. Actually the bravest thing I did is probably talking about it out here. Shame does that, it lets you feel like some chapters of your life aren’t meant to be known by all, because you don’t want to be judged, but unbeknownst to you, it also creates a gap that can’t be bridged without vulnerability and yes, being open about the most painful chapter of your life is big time vulnerability.

Confession #2 I’ve never felt like much of a risk taker. The biggest risk I took so far was leaving a comfortable, settled-ish life working in a top IT company in India to move to Australia because I knew God was leading me here. These past few years have seen me facing moments I didn’t expect, the uncertainty of my present, the unsettled life, the “I-dont-know-if-I-can-afford-that-coffee” life but it’s also had me with moments of the certainty of God’s love, the peace of seeing His hand of love through others through and to me, the joy of building intimacy with my own family in a new way, the sheer awe-someness of pursuing His call in my life even as I try to gauge what that looks like…

I guess what I’m trying to say that I may not feel like much, I may not be much but in His hands, I am enough because God has graced me, & He continues to, & I love Him so very much and know that I absolutely cannot do a single moment of this life without Him. So if you, like me, perhaps look at yourself and think “I’m not much”, maybe this is your reminder that even when you don’t feel like much or enough, you are more than enough-just see yourself through the lens of God’s love and you’ll find beauty in the knowing!