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EMBRACING AWE - I love the story of Jesus’ baptism. It is one of those stories that is familiar and leaves me feeling warm and cozy. In the story we are reminded that Jesus is God’s believes son and most of us have been encouraged to imagine that God also says these words to us. I think baptism is less about obedience and more about identity. When we are baptized, be it as infants or as teenagers, or as adults – when we are baptized, we are declaring (or our parents are declaring) that we are a child of God and that is how we see ourselves. When we begin to see ourselves as God sees us, when we are able to understand that we are beloved of God, our whole view of ourselves is transformed.
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