Not a long post today. Just meditating on a simple insight. I’ll probably discuss it at greater length at some point.

As I proceed in this journey, I’ve come to realize that I must simultaneously embrace the man I used to be, the man I am and the man I want to become. The trinity of self in other words. Sometimes I want to turn my back on the past and just start anew. But history is important. And those wounds, those wrong turns are all critical to my wisdom in Christ. Sometimes I just want to cast into the future. But if I don’t embrace who I am right now, if I don’t know where I am in this moment, how in the world will I find my way forward.

It’s foolish of me to think for one moment that I can unravel any single aspect of myself and not expect the entire braid to come undone. It’s the collective of past, present and future that define me.