We trust who God has made us to be in Christ, and we live from that solid, anchored, true reality. We receive others into the grace we have received and now live in. We forgive because we are forgiven. We bless because we are blessed. We love because we are loved. As we do this we bear the presence of God to others (2 Corinthians 2:14; 5:20). God’s grace and truth empowers us to grow beyond our pretensions, our posturing and our protectiveness of idealized goodness. We live as wounded healers. We are open to others, able to be seen, able to be heard and able to be known. We grow in the
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