Behold, you are ...

I am an inveterate re-poster. I work on things over and over until my inner-sense tells me it's time to let it go. This isn't something I can really change. It's the way I am. God has given me an eye to see what can be, and in my humanity, requires that I struggle to make it so.

When I was younger this was torment. I was always in a hurry to be rich, popular, famous, or at least elsewhere. I wanted everything to wrap up easily and effortlessly. Years of laborious trial and error brought me to a different conclusion. And to Christ.

Now I’m older and more experienced; thankfully, I've rubbed most of the bark off the tree of self-criticism. Now it’s a joy and a privilege to earn a living with my imagination (well, a living may be stretching it), and I realize, finally, though I still have so many limitations, how blessed I am to be me. 

I truly am a new creation.

Such is the saving power of God.

2 Corintihians 5:17 "Behold you are a new creation; The old has past, the new has come ... "