Putting on the new man

"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all." Colossians 3:5-11

This blog was originally started as a chronicle of someone who had moved from a big city in Texas to a much smaller city in the Mid-South. It was quite a shell-shock, and it was nice to vent about these foreign things and people, as it was likened to traveling back in time.....

However, looking back and reading over the posts and comments made me realize that I was complaining. Whining. Frustrated. Upset. Desperate.

Broken.

So very broken.

Like a hard-boiled egg that had been left in the boiling water for too long....I had some cracks. Then the egg fell on the floor and was utterly fragmented, but remained intact. Barely.

My brokenness has been made whole through a dot-to-dot journey that I have been searching for ever since I can remember.

I was told by a friend to pray "Whatever it takes."

And I did. And here I am. Whole.