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Sunday Seasoned Sayings: This Wildly Extravagant Life-Gift

December 4, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

If death got the upper hand through one man’s wrongdoing,
can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes,
sovereign life,
in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift,
this grand setting-everything-right,
that the one man Jesus Christ provides?

~Romans 5:17 (Message)

Photo of a volunteer at Hiland Cottage arranging donated flowers that helped bring beauty throughout the house.

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  1. Shanda Oakley says

    December 4, 2011 at 12:34 am

    Wow. It is amazing the life that The Message can bring to a verse you have read for years!

    • Sandra says

      December 4, 2011 at 11:51 pm

      It opens up a whole new way of seeing. Yes.

  2. Louise G says

    December 4, 2011 at 12:44 am

    Very beautiful and affirming.

    Hugs

    • Sandra says

      December 4, 2011 at 11:47 pm

      Hugs right back to you, friend.

  3. Megan Willome says

    December 4, 2011 at 8:26 am

    These days have their own peculiar beauty, don’t they?

    • Sandra says

      December 4, 2011 at 11:48 pm

      Peculiar, yes. Reminds me of something my mom would ask when we said something was funny. She’d say, “Funny haha or funny peculiar?”

  4. Dea says

    December 4, 2011 at 10:39 am

    True. (Hugs)

    • Sandra says

      December 4, 2011 at 11:49 pm

      Hugs back.

  5. Sheila says

    December 4, 2011 at 10:48 am

    I’m not sure I can fully imagine it…in fact I’m reasonably sure I can’t.

    I’m nodding to Megan. A peculiar beauty, yes.

    • Sandra says

      December 4, 2011 at 11:52 pm

      A wildly extravagant beauty. Can’t imagine. But one day we will see!

  6. Deidra says

    December 4, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    Yes. What Megan and Sheila said. And “…this grand setting-everything-right…” just undoes me.

    • Sandra says

      December 5, 2011 at 12:02 am

      Peterson did not hold back here, did he? This passage makes my heart soar.

  7. Linda says

    December 4, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    Oh the hope and joy of life everlasting. Your beautiful heart shines Sandy.

    • Sandra says

      December 5, 2011 at 12:01 am

      And to grasp it and see it now. Such joy in that!

      My heart shines? You’ve made it sing.

  8. Shelly Miller says

    December 4, 2011 at 2:41 pm

    That verse brings back a memory of my being in an internship in California and our discovery of the true meaning of these words. Life changing for all of us in the room that day.

    • Sandra says

      December 4, 2011 at 11:50 pm

      I need to know more about this day and memory.

  9. Jeanne Damoff says

    December 4, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    That verse comes to life shared by you at this time. Love to you, friend. Keep grasping with both hands. xo

    • Sandra says

      December 4, 2011 at 11:50 pm

      And the both hands–not just one, leaving the other to do its own thing. Grasping with you, sweet Jeanne.

  10. Patricia @ Pollywog Creek says

    December 4, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    Oh, Sandy….that just seems so perfect for you right now…and it blesses me, too…what an amazing thing…this grand-setting-everything-right. You’ve been in my thoughts and prayers.

  11. Kristi says

    December 4, 2011 at 4:21 pm

    LOVE…..grasping with both hands this wildly extravagent life-gift!! Never read this translation of this verse…makes it come alive in new way.
    Thanks for sharing!

    • Sandra says

      December 4, 2011 at 11:46 pm

      Welcome, Kristi. Thank you for coming by. I’ve read this, but think I overlooked it before. 🙂

  12. S. Etole says

    December 4, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    How right this seems at this time.

    • Sandra says

      December 5, 2011 at 12:03 am

      🙂

  13. nance says

    December 6, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    lovely to see hands arranging flowers.

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