Possibilities

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 With God all things are possible. 

--Matthew 19:26, Luke 1:37, Phil 4:13, Mark 10:27, Mark 9:23, Isaiah 41:10, Jeremiah 32:17 et al.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
the sun forbear to shine;
but God, who called me here below,
will be forever mine.

--John Newton (1779)

I'm not quite sure why thinking about possibilities also has me thinking about the last verse of the hymn Amazing Grace.  Maybe because I love snow and the way it transforms everything by covering every surface with a blanket of white.  Then when it melts away, everything is back to how it was before.  Snow, for me, has always been fleeting and temporary because I've never lived where it sticks around for weeks and months.  But the idea of the whole earth melting sounds like a surreal Salvador Dali painting.

Maybe this verse of Amazing Grace helps me remember that nothing is as solid and immovable as it seems.  Even solid rock will melt if it gets hot enough.  But God's love goes on forever. (Psalm 136:1 et al)

All of which means that there are an infinite number of possibilities for growth, change, new life, transformation, and solutions. Even the nouns in the previous sentence are just the tip of the iceberg of possibilities.

What gets in the way of imagining the possibilities?  Assumptions.  Givens.  The givens are assumed facts like gravity. But what if the givens change?

Bruce Hornsby sang, "That's just the way it is. Some things will never change."  

But things do change. People change. Circumstances change.

God does not change, and with God all things are possible, which points to the inevitablity of change and the abundance of possibilities.

If we truly believe that with God all things are possible, what will we do?

Whatever we do, God's grace goes on forever.

Thanks, God.