I was an Origami gone wrong

Someone on Stan's blog asked me: hungribunniI don't know you. Can you give me some examples how you are transformed so that I can better understand grace?"

So I began.

And I guess the background story was so long, painful (dark past? -check!) and detailed he waved the white flag and said my case was "too complicated to work on".

Which led me to thank Jesus. Serious. If you hear people tell you what a hopeless case you were, you'd feel the way I do - simply darn grateful. I was like this origami gone wrong - you know the origami crane that flaps its wings when you pull the tail? I always couldn't get it right and well, I was like one of my cranes - I couldn't fly. Thank God for Jesus. He is the master origami expert when it comes to a complicated soul.

I replied to the dude-

Thank God then that Jesus worked on me lol. Any normal person would have given up and written me off as a lost case.

You have no idea the knots He untangled to get here where I am today. =)

I am now married happily to a guy who loves me regardless of my past, and whose family loves and accepts both my son and I with all their hearts.

I am wonderfully provided for because Christ is my perfect provision and hubby and I marvel at all the goodness in our lives because He is our all in all.

My mum and I have a great relationship. My parents and I have gone closer and my aunt recently commented on how much I have changed and matured as I walk in the grace of Jesus.

My parents were once upset, though not against, my being Christian and are now growing in their walk with Christ because of the victories they are witnessing in my life through Jesus and Jesus alone.

I have lost some old friends because they liked me angsty and dark. But God has blessed me with friends who share the same faith walk and none of them dare to believe or can imagine what I used to be.

I am known to be a "kai xin guo" (happy fruit... mandarin saying) and a very joyful person who always believes God is good all the time, and that it is not I who lives but Christ who lives in me.

I am no longer hungry spiritually all the time but very well fed - not just by my church- but through quiet times and other reading materials and reflections in my life.

Because there was so much sin abounding my life, grace super abounded... I was just beginning to show you what was wrong, then how I walked in law, and how I walked out in grace and conquered the old me =D

All in Christ and in Christ ALONE. =)