Is it True That Nothing In Life is Free?

Remember the old adage that "nothing in life is free?" Back in my day, which seems like eons yet like yesterday too, a piece of Bazooka gum cost .01, a Big Stick .25, a stamp .10, bus ride .25....the first 2 things being the most important to a kid, which is probably why I remember how much they were. Looking back while comparing prices between then and now, it seems like things back then were almost free, but its all relative. These days you really can't get much for FREE, except maybe frustration and library books. With that sigh of reality comes great news my friend! There is something else, somthing more important that is FREE... no strings attached, no small print, no scheme nor "have to buy such and such" later kind of thing.
This morning I was reminded once again that God gives of Himself for FREE...no strings attached, no small print, definitely no scheme. He sent His Son to die for me (and you) so that I (and those who accept Him as their Savior) may be FREE to have an abundant overflowing with good life. It doesnt means its not a hard life, but it is a good life in some many ways. Sometimes its hard to see that with rising gas and grocery prices and soaring debt this truth still prevails. Even if gas gets to 7.00 a gallon (Please Lord, no! Just the thought make me nauseous), groceries go up to apples costing 2.00 an apple as opposed to 1.00 each (isn't that ridiculous ?!) this truth wont waver. Its easy to lose sight of that given the way our world is these days and the direction it seems to be going. Great news to all my friends! We can have full confidence that His love wont ever fade, dry up, disappear, fizzle out wither away or run out.
I am learning each day that with each day comes new grace. Each challenge is met with the tools to overcome. Whatever what situation we may find our selves in, His grace is there to cover it and His tools available to bring us to the other side. I am the first to say its hard at times to remember that. In the last 10 yrs I have been thru the most difficult , heart wrenching, challenging , joy blasting circumstances in my life. Yet He is there. Its hard to hold onto joy when your life seems to be pulled out from your fingers. Yet He is there. For me, its like having an almost completed puzzle dropped on the floor and I'm trying to put it back together the best I can, with His covering of me. My life as I once new it was no more but its open for a new life to form. So the next time someone says "Honey, nothing in life is FREE", you can let them know there are things for FREE...the most important being the love of God... the One who created life and all that is in it.