The money and habits, the whispers and gossip, the crashing and burning, and the lying that only the good die young are how we end up hung up on everything and anything, everyone and anyone who promises to reverse the curse that we were born with but can’t escape because we’re locked up in the cages that we made for ourselves.

That’s why we can’t wait to listen to what God has to say, to see his face shine on us. But we don’t have to plead our case because he already knows all of our thoughts and all of our ways, so before we get a chance to say anything he says to us: have faith, you’re forgiven, you’re loved, you’re safe in the name of Jesus Christ forever. The curse that you’re born with is reversed so that now you can call it all a gift.