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Thanks for visiting my diary. I've been journaling since 1984 and have chosen to share some of my entries online. They are not all positive thoughts, but I hope that reading them might be a blessing to someone who needs encouragement.
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Freedom in Christ requires giving up something, letting go of "the sinful nature," some kind of spiritual rebirth. Spiritual rebirth is a concept that I've been considering for some time now, even longer than I've been considering freedom in Christ. There are needs that I have which are tied to things that happened or didn't happen in infancy or early childhood. There is a need to be held, but I think that a more basic need underlies the need to be held. It is a need for stability, security, acceptance, and approval. If I am reading and interpreting correctly, this is nothing new. Life has been unstable and attachments insecure since the beginning of man's existence. Being merely man wasn't good enough. He had to be like God. And finally, unconditional love wasn't enough. There was always an attempt to make himself good enough, to make up for that rift between himself and God.
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