Wanna feel good about yourself?
Free from your past?
Accepted without having to perform?
Wanna feel safe, relaxed, free to love others and not condemn yourself?
The Bible says, it’s God’s kindness that leads us towards repentance.
So, step into my storymobile and ride shot gun, as I disclose with slow-mo clarity, the truth about my mistakes and God’s overwhelming, overarching, never-ending love that always provides some kind of redo.
I don’t claim to have it all together.
Believe me, I know what it is to wander without a map.
I know what it is to grasp for a sense of belonging, a sense of achievement, a sense of self-worth, and do so many things I regret—as a friend, a girlfriend, a wife, a mother.
But I also know that God doesn’t leave us stuck in our mistakes.
Isaiah 43:18-19 says, “Forget about what’s happened; don’t keep going over old history.
Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands. (MSG)
And that brand-new thing, is trusting that Jesus really is who he says he is, our liberator from shame whose death wipes out the score against us and gives us another chance pointed away from dead ends and towards eternity, under a brand-new name, his name, Christ-ian.
First, a few factoids, so we can get to know each other:
- I’m adopted
- I grew up in mid-century, Leave-it-to-Beaver suburbia
- I was sixteen the summer of Woodstock
- I smoked pot—and inhaled
- I hated high school
- I’m a romantic who gave herself away foolishly
- By God’s grace, I married a wonderful man
- At long last, I found my birth mom
- I have a degree in writing, and worked for a small publisher before I had kids
- I have a masters in education and taught immigrants from kindergarten to college
- I write both memoir and children’s literature
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And please let me know how my stories connect with yours by leaving comments. Community matters. We’re in this together.
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever! Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)
