ok so i'm no poet, but i don't like sentences and these are my thoughts:

may i be different
but never better
set apart
but not placed above

make known my insufficiencies
my sin
my fall

make it clear
that only You are good
make it clear
that only You can change me
make it clear

help me care
and not condemn
help me
please
help me


suppose that most of the time we focus on being different from the world. set apart. lights. pure. blameless. anyone who's gone to church twice could probably continue my list until tomorrow. but being different is sneaky and if we're not careful, different can evolve into an attempt to be better. can we live differently without making ourselves out to be better? let's hope so. let's hope, for the sake of those who haven't an inkling to what grace feels like, that we offer a broken life and wounded spirit that every person under heaven can relate to. because there are three things that each of us will do: be born, sin and die. so where do we get off standing on our self-created pedastools? i don't know... i just get sad thinking about two things: 1)God's people being afraid of the world and 2)God's people thinking they're better the entirety of existence. I wise man once said "Being Christian doesn't mean that the world has to hate you"