A few years ago, I wrote that grace is a lot like cotton. I recently found a beautiful cotton field on the side of the road while en route to pick my daughter up from a sleepover. I took pictures of the beautiful plants.
My mind wondered to the verse:
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Through further research, I learned that a type of wool is made from cotton, cotton wool. To make cotton wool, the cotton must be purified, meaning removal of any seeds and extraneous matter.
Cotton wool is especially soft and pure which allows it to be used in medical applications including cleaning wounds.
Read more of my A to Z for Spiritual Redemption. My other posts include:
- #LMMLinkup: A is for Acceptance
- #AtoZChallenge: B is for Believe
- #AtoZChallenge: C is for Cross
- #AtoZChallenge: D is For Devotion
- #AtoZChallenge: E is for Eternal
- #AtoZChallenge: F is for Faith and Following Jesus
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Last Week’s Top Clicked
Trials Usher in Peace
By Karen Deltatto
Karen continues her impromptu series about grace and knowledge. She speaks of how trials can bring peace to our souls. It is a quandary, but you will need to read Karen’s post to learn more. She also links to another post which further expands on her current quest for knowledge, grace, and peace. We all have periods of seeking, and Karen uses writing to seek Christ’s guidance. Be sure to check out this post.
My Favorite Post
An Ordinary Challenge: Power Lines and Hidden Magic
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As I wrap up today’s linkup post, I realize that everything about this week links to journeys and grace. Kaitlyn touched upon this journey too in her post. She issued a challenge:
“Pay attention to your day, your right now life, and look for one ordinary but beautiful thing.”
When we look for the ordinary, but beautiful thing, I believe we will discover in our journey God’s grace and love.
I love this quote in her post:
“You’re with us on every page, good in every storyline, writing beauty into every ordinary day.”
I hope you will take the time to read it. It will really bless you today!
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Mary, Thank you for visiting my blog and linking up. You made my day. I’m a newbie to blogging, blog hops and link ups. Thank you for making me feel welcome.
Now every time I see a cotton field I’ll thing of grace…and you!
Wow this is so powerful!
So grateful you shared my post here. Thank you for featuring it… and for taking the ordinary challenge. 🙂 🙂
Grace, is such an awe inspiring love from God… As there’s nothing we can do to earn it!
Blessings,
Jennifer
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Thank you so much for your incredibly kind words about this week’s post and the previous one. That type of encouragement really spurs me on when sometimes I feel like giving up blogging.
I enjoyed your post and the word picture you drew on the analogy of the process for cotton and how it parallels with what grace does in our own lives.
Very well written.
Thanks for sharing!
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When my mom was growing up she used to have to pick the cotton on her family’s farm. I’m sure that was hot, hard work, but I agree the plants are pretty. Thanks for sharing about the cotton wool. I’m so glad God showers us with His grace and cleanses us from the inside out. Blessings to you, dear Mary! xoxo
I love the picture of cotton growing. I have never had a chance to see it.
I find the definition of grace to be a bit mysterios. It is a word I struggle with because it seems as though there are many meanings. Thank you for helping my understanding.
I have always looked at grace as an undeserved gift. When our children were little and did something wrong we would sometimes give them grace. In other words a break even though they desrved consequences for their actions.
However, I know grace is so much more than this.
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Thank you for these precious thoughts about cotton wool, Mary! That touched me so much to think about the purified wool being used to bring about purity and cleansing in the surgical process. I feel Jesus doing that very thing in my own heart thru these trials. He is purifying where I cannot. So very precious.
Cotton fields abounded where I grew up, and I always thought them somewhat messy. But what a picture of God’s transforming grace is cotton wool, with all its impurities removed.
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