Reflections 3/23/2020: I love this chorus from the Lauv song of the same name! (The verses are a little racier, but the chorus just hums deeply inside of me 🎶 !) “Sometimes” it applies to me with Ed, but I think it resonates with me because it absolutely captures my relationship with You, Jesus! I am a better person because of You! Last night our small life group met remotely to study the Bible and pray together! Physical distancing… social connecting! A member complimented me on my grateful attitude expressed in my daily Reflections. I was touched by his kind words, but something didn’t feel quite right… me taking credit for something that is totally Yours to take! Transformation of Your doing, Lord! Just ask my family who grew up with me! Or my friends in high school who dubbed me the most “blunt” person they knew… who’d always give them the truth, whether they wanted it or not! I remember my freshman year in college, as a Psych major, having to be a guinea pig for upper classmen’s research. I had to do with how we viewed ourselves. I was just beginning to see this divine metamorphosis and had terrible trouble differentiating baseline me from the me that was taking form! Sounded schizophrenic to the guy testing me, but I KNEW it was You fulfilling Your promise to make me a “new creature!” Spirit “fruit” erupting from barren branches! And if I distance myself from You, that fruit shrivels up like raisins in the sun! Soooo, I absolutely do “Like me better when I’m with You!” 🎼