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Dear roommate,
I’m going to keep turning the heater back on every time you turn it off. I don’t care how many times it takes. It’s 20 degrees outside. I’m leaving for Florida in 44 hours. Keep it off the whole time if you’d like. I don’t care one bit. Until then, I’d prefer not to wake up multiple times during the night because of how cold I am.
Sincerely,
I hate winter.
Do you remember, as a kid, the first time you went really fast on your bike, and it felt like you were flying, or the first time you got both wheels off the ground, and how you could feel, almost hear, your heart beating. It was like the first time you held her hand, or ran away from home and got lost.
Now, do you remember the last time you drove by a lake and wondered if there was a rope swing but never stopped, or the last time you looked at a smooth stone and imagined throwing it across the water but finished your conversation instead. When was the last time you considered a tree based on climb-ability? Ran across the grass barefoot, or decided to be a robber instead of a cop? Well, no one wants to be a cop anyways.
Let’s pretend again, and play a prank; we’ll defend a fort, or draw a map to plan an escape. All we have to do is take off our shoes and jump in, or walk outside and find an adventure.
-James Nord
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it.
Come Thou Fount
King’s Kaleidoscope
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In the passage that I quoted from Colossians [3:9], Paul says we are to strip off our old nature and put on a new nature. In other words, stop acting like who we are not and instead act like who we are.
For some reason, we tend to think that “being a Christian” means “being what I’m not.” But that’s not true. Jesus gave me a new way to be human. At the core of my being, I am holy, righteous, godly, compassionate, generous, loving and sensitive. I have a new nature, and it mirrors the God who created me.
We have to stop seeing ourselves as sinners. In heaven there is no concept of us as sinners. As far as the east is from the west, the Bible says, that is how far God has removed our sins from us. He does not remember them. When God sees us, He does not see a sinner. He sees a saint.
This is who we really are. Really.
I’m not saying that to trick you into feeling better about yourself. It is not a word game we play to justify sin. It is the good news of grace. Yes, these sins are real. But they do not define us. Anger, wrath, malice, evil words—this is not who we are. We have to view those things as intrusions. Sin is an alien, an invader, a parasite. It’s not part of God’s creation.
The real me is the righteous me, and that is more real than sin could ever be.
To save humanity, God became man in the person of Jesus. In the process, he redefined what it means to belong to the human race.
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"It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up and silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don’t see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when you’re laughing and smiling and happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly yourself."
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