ON ALL SIDES

I watched that old "I Love Lucy" re-run today, where Lucy and Ethel are stomping the grapes in the grape barrel.What a hoot that was! Crushing those grapes to pieces was a long process to finally get the grapes into wine, but it was necessary! ( I'm not sure Lucy and Ethel had it down just right though...) It was true,though, that the grapes had to be crushed before they could ever become wine........We surely would look funny drinking grapes, wouldn't we? :p)
We, as Christians seem to be crushed,and "hard pressed on all sides", but we will not be destroyed! The whole process we go through, when it seems we are being "crushed",turns us into the person that Christ so designed us to be.
As He takes each,individual grape, and crushes it together with all the others and makes a fine wine, He takes each individual ligament, and molds them together into the body of Christ.

Becky

**I must share with you how excited I was at writing this journey.This is an example of why our Bible could not be written wrong.....
I wrote this journey a certain way, and infact, had read it to Nellah, before hand.As I posted it, and was typing it, the Holy Spirit spoke the words in the last paragraph,so I changed what I had written down and typed in what He gave me.