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Head's Up!

To my subscribers: I'm in the middle of re-tooling and re-purposing this blog, integrating posts from other blogs into this one. Feel free to read and comment (and if you've read it and didn't enjoy it, many apologies)! In the meantime, carry on.

The Beautiful Tension

"And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." -Philippians 1:6 (ESV) A few weeks ago, my pastor started a new sermon series out of Philippians, and I've been chewing on the verse above in particular ever since. I honestly don't know about you, but whenever I come across a verse like this, I feel a beautiful sense of tension start to build inside of me. I think it's because Philippians 1:6 is one of those verses that can be read with either a sense of fatalism or a sense of hope. I tend to read it with little bit of both (which might explain some of why I feel this tension in the first place). For me, the fatalism is in the knowing that I wasn't zapped into a perfect creature here on Earth the second I chose to surrender to the one who wanted to do a good work in me (God). It is very much a process, and living in a society where so much is available to me so quickly means sometimes I