Shawna’s best friend Latrece knows the good, bad, and ugly about Shawna, and loves her. And if Latrece a human loves Shawna that much, think how much the beautiful, perfect Son of God loves us! Then, we all need at least one friend who knows the worst about us, yet still loves us, a friend who can help us carry the load of shame and regret. For Perry that’s his friend the Doc. Next, every moment of your life is being transformed into beauty by Jesus, even your greatest failures.

Then, Shawna admits she wasn’t one of the cool kids in school, wasn’t one of first to be chosen on the playground. It’s a conversation about our longing to be seen, known, loved, chosen, and how that longing is satisfied. Finally Jesus has rescued us to make us just like him. As CS Lewis says, “He will one day make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess”. But the path to that destiny “will be long and in parts very painful.”

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