With life transition at it’s finest, one gets the assurance of new beginnings, hopes for great adventure and the opportunity to absorb life lessons in abundance. Sensations of situational boulders that were once wearing down on you, almost at breaking point has diminished. It’s the fragrance of life when flowers begin to blossum and color breathes breath back into hibernating creatures. Well despite the snow piled on street corners, the lifeless trees that sway in the brisk wind, and the winter cold, the spring of life that was swindled has now been returned.
When you realize that human beings can’t make or unmake you look at memory a bit different. Yes those dreaded past things that we thought once were behind have come to the forefront in a differnt way. Those things are a part of us, yes, but they do NOT define us. We are defined by how God relates to us. Identity and definition are two completely different words, which can have the same ring to them if not looked at carefully. Identity is who we are in Christ and how our relationship with Him, impacts our character. This type of identity is defined. When we give the power of definition to others we are now in painful territory.We are not defined by what others say or think, those are mere formalities in which society has once labeled acceptable. Not saying that a definition isn’t true, but it is not how we are identified by Christ. When we remember this, it is then that the abiding flame of God’s presence is identified in us, with the responsibility of sharing this flame with others…because that is how I want to be defined!
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