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Well y’all In A Word didn’t even get to its scheduled posting time before some defining came.

Authentic 

I watched a movie last night: Nikki and the Perfect Stranger.

I am no stranger :) to this line of movies. This is the third one by this group that I have eaten up deliciously! 

To be authentic this year it cannot be about me; if I FOCUS on me, authentic or not,  I will miss the point. 

The minister was asked how do you do this Christian Life thing? Nikki eluded that it had become burdensome – like a check list to her. (And I have had more than my share of checklists.)  

He answered: “I don’t allow myself to stop seeing how amazing HE is.”  

15 While he was still speaking, behold, a shining cloud [composed of light] overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, This is My Son, My Beloved, with Whom I am [and have always been] delighted. Listen to Him!6 When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were seized with alarm and struck with fear.7 But Jesus came and touched them and said, Get up, and do not be afraid.8 And when they raised their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only. source  Matthew 17 

Here’s my sign: Listen to and see Only JESUS!

Matthew 16:24-26 (TLV)

24 Then Yeshua said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? source

Shall I paraphrase for this posting?

Whoever concentrates on herself; goes on and on with a what about me lifestyle; or she who indulges in childishly wailing: I am so stupid;  or is repeatedly lamenting: I mess up all the time; (give me a bucket!) and then there’s the I got to do this, I got to do that dirge — I get the idea! As long as I do this life this way, the Life He has for me I will lose! I will not be the authentic me He has envisioned me to be.

In summary, for me to be authentic, I must practice what I write!

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In a Word

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Fellow bloggers have graciously shared their Word(s) for 2017. I commented to a long time blogger friend that I had not settled into 2017 quietly enough to get a word. She assured me it would come. She was right. 

You Version. Y’all familiar? It’s a God-send to me. Especially authenticitythis one: Destined to Win. This line in particular: “Authenticity means letting go of who others want you to be, so you can be who you really are.”

Authenticity.  

Authentic. 

That’s the me to be in 2017.

Not just with my people, those with whom it’s acceptable and comfortable to be me but others. Not the flesh me but the God-given Spirit me.  The positive, believing-GOD this is going to work out me. The me that say yes I can see that is difficult but GOD promises this  .  . . if we will do this . . . 

You get the idea? Me too. Scary it is I tell you!

Authentic! To be found authentically belonging, believing, trusting, loving, and sharing JESUS with all my world, including myself! Authentic, honest with myself about the me I am being on any given and every day of 2017.   A young woman named Faith calls it being RAD. 

She said this:

Slowly but surely I had to learn how to…

Reveal my sins.

  Accept his Grace

             Do not pick it back up.

That’s pretty… RAD… right?

Click HERE for more of Faith at A Messy Sanctuary.

Galatians 6:14-16 (TLV) 14 But may I never boast—except in the cross of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. Through Him the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything—but only a new creation. 16 Now as many as live by this rule—shalom and mercy on them and on the Israel of God.  source 
2 John 3  (NKJV) 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.   source 

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