IMG_1241Isn’t it wonderful that we don’t have to stay down? Life can kick us down, it can beat us up, but God will give us the grace to keep moving upward.

It can seem like we’re down for the count in our day-to-day lives and even in our spiritual lives. Perhaps this week you can reflect on a time when you were down and something happened to raise your spirits just enough to get you moving in a different direction.

How did that move occur? Was it through a kind gesture? Was it through the right story at the right time? What made a difference?

Will you be that difference for someone this week?

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