Making Yourself New

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 Making yourself new. When there is joy in our lives, we don’t say: I’ll get over it, or don’t let it define me. No, we pack it away as something to remember. Likewise, when difficulty, disaster, or crisis happens we must learn that we aren’t getting over it or letting it define us. We pack it away as something to remember. We can learn from a terrible boss just as much as from a good one, maybe more. No, we are making ourselves new when we learn this. Mark 2:21 “No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear worsens.” Events, people, and crises will define us. The key is not to give them power over us. The key is to learn from them and draw on them when needed. Let them create a stronger, wisdom-filled person. A piece that has been shrunken.

The only mistake,

a soul can make,

is not to learn,

from the chain

 of events

 it passes through.

Jesus teaches us that we must shrink (or process) the events so they can be sewn on “an old cloak.” Life is messy, yet in that messiness, we are defining ourselves. Live spelled backward evil. I think that we find evil seeping in when we don’t pursue a definition of self-empowerment, wisdom from life, and the light of Christ in our lives. Live life with the light and let it light your life on the path…

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