There’s no harvest without a storm.

Ann Voskamp at A Holy Experience today offers this quote from Karl Barth,

“Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth.

Grace evokes gratitude like the voice an echo.

Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightening.” ~Barth

Farmer Ann adds,

There’s no harvest without a storm.
Gratitude follows grace — as thunder follows lightening. And the storm is grace because whatever drives us into God, is a grace from God.

God gives grace and ours is to give thanks and in the midst of full days, this is God’s unconditional demand: That we live thankful.

...there’s grace that comes as storms and the only answer to God’s unending grace — is man’s unending gratitude.
the only answer to God’s unending grace — is man’s unending gratitude.
When you live in a covenant of grace, you can’t help but live out a covenant of gratitude.

Read more and view Ann's photos here.