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Knowing More Fully...

Even as we are more fully known.

 Sister Joan Chittister says, "We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been." (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully)

 This is the definition of sanctification for me. We are children of God, simultaneously saint and sinner, but we are not yet what we have been made to be in fullness. 

 The on-going work of the Spirit within pulls, pushes, and propels us to being more fully the child (children) of God for the time and place and hope and future for which we were created. 

 When there is great turmoil and fear in the world, like now, I can easily feel detached from many things. Yet, because I believe God is still working - even and especially in me- I believe that nothing is settled. History is within God, thus no other forces will even be footnoted in the final telling. 

 Every glimpse of pain or horror in the world is also a chance to perceive one's own sanctification, to respond with Christlikeness and holy hope and to glimpse within one's own heart what has always been true about the self and what is becoming more true through the power of God. 
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Anonymous said…
Hi Julia, how right you are and thank goodness that we are in God's hands. Knowing that despite recent events He is still who He has always been, always will be and we will always be his children, being sheltered under the shadow of his wing. :) Visiting from NaBloPoMo in November '15. Linda
November 22, 2015 at 4:03 AM
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