Changing some tapes

Good morning, I was reading through some old drafts of posts that never made it to your eyes, yet. I’m remembering the times I wrote and how I was feeling at the time of writing. I’m grateful to remember. I’m grateful that I have time stamps and records of my life here. As I read the writings of Paul, I often wonder if he went back. Wished he could have elaborated here, deleted there.

I won’t start putting words in Paul’s mouth here. As a parent, there are so many instances that come to mind, actually haunt me at times, when I could have said something better. Done better. Mother’s Day is weird to me. I get a strange sort of expectations in my mind from social media, posts, articles and such. We can do this with all aspects of our life. How does it compare to..? this never ends well.

Day to day, rather, may I proclaim Christ in my words, in my actions and doing so, it is revealed that Christ is my hope. It gets sticky when I wrongly place the focus on others. Trying to please others. Trying to do things according to another’s needs. Everyone has opinions. I have opinions, only, I have to live here. Let me share the verses today.

“God [in His eternal plan] chose to make known to them how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in and among you, the hope and guarantee of [realizing the] glory. We proclaim Him, warning and instructing everyone in all wisdom [that is, with comprehensive insight into the word and purposes of God], so that we may present every person complete in Christ [mature, fully trained, and perfect in Him—the Anointed]. For this I labor [often to the point of exhaustion], striving with His power and energy, which so greatly works within me.”
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Colossians 1:27-29

Compare Paul’s words with the above paragraph. We, you..community language in Paul’s words. I, me…in my own. friends, this is where i need God to move in my soul. May my life become so much more about we and you and less about i and me, so that we and you may know:

“[For my hope is] that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in [unselfish] love, so that they may have all the riches that come from the full assurance of understanding [the joy of salvation], resulting in a true [and more intimate] knowledge of the mystery of God, that is, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge [regarding the word and purposes of God].”
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Colossians 2:2-3