BECOMING YOURSELF First, remember that God loves you. As David liked to say, paraphrasing the psalms, “God takes delight in you!” Or as the theologian James Alison suggests, God likes you. If you doubt this, a quick examen of the things for which you’re grateful may help you see the way that God has blessed you, and loves you. Reading the first few verses of Psalm 139—“You knit me together in my mother’s womb”—often helps as well. Second, realize that God loves you as an individual, not simply in the abstract. God cares about you personally, much as a close friend would. Remember how God
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Good principles.
