You release grace
by applauding the Giver,
praising and thanking him
with your lips and your life.

We don’t typically think of water flowing up. But it does. What God pours out as rain or snow returns heavenward as vapor. The same substance that descended rises in a different form. Usually this upward flow is invisible. But occasionally when conditions are right, we see it. We see the mist or steam rising, to complete the cycle and start it again.

We don’t typically think of grace flowing up. But it does. Grace rises as gratitude.

What God pours out as grace
returns to him as glory.

The Esther Blessing: Grace to Reign in Life, © 2013, 2017 Deborah P. Brunt.