are you willing to go from changed to changing…

The following is a guest post by my new friend Sarah Cunningham. In addition to writing the much-talked-about Dear Church, Sarah has just released her brand new Picking Dandelions: A Search for Eden Among Life’s Weeds. I hope you enjoy.
 
Wow. My first invite to Matthew Paul Turner’s blog (moment of awed silence).

Should I dig out a classy dress to make a good first impression? Or should I skip right to my jeans-and-hoodie self? I’ve got a feeling my good host Matthew just wants me to kick back and relax.

So I’m going to go that route.

Here’s what’s new in my life: my new memoir, Picking Dandelions: A Search for Eden Among Life’s Weeds (Zondervan), just hit stores February 1st. You’d think that’d be the sort of day authors do backflips in their front yards, celebrating. But to tell you the truth, whenever my writing comes out, I mostly feel squirmy. Because books, especially memoirish ones, aren’t a far cry from mass-publishing your diary, which on our sanest days, doesn’t seem like a smart thing to do.

Here’s an example of what I mean. One of the stories in my book involves me sitting on our porch, wondering how people like myself can claim to follow God for years—decades even—yet still leave most of our faith stuffed in the attic with the Raggedy Ann and Big Wheel we had when we acquired it.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my faith to be a historical exhibit: a collection of cheesy 80’s artifacts—witnessing bracelets, and footprint lapel pins, and testamints—collecting dust on a shelf next to the Precious Moments Bible with my name on the front. I don’t want my spiritual verbage to be stuck in the past either: to be a person who last experienced transformation when SheRa was still the reigning princess of power.

After all, its pretty ridiculous to think I could tagalong with a visionary like Jesus—through the deserts, and crowded hillsides, and endless lines of sick and hurting people—and continue to be the exact same person I always was.

It stands to reason that all that God-stuff would get inside me, stir something new from time to time, perhaps propel change out of the past tense (chang-ed) into the here and now (chang-ing).

So what about you, can you relate?

Are you the same person today that you were last year?

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