A cosmic do - over

Parents look at their newborn child and see a lawyer, a ballerina, a rocket scientist, a major league baseball player.  Even as they are changing the diapers, parents see the potential and possibilities just waiting to emerge.

Baptism is our second 'coming out' experience.  We go into the water broken and out of sync with ourselves and our neighbors.  We come out of the water knowing that we are beloved of God.  God looks at us and sees all that we can be, and then 'spirits' us into that future.

It is a cosmic do-over that we spend our lifetime living into.  And thanking God in Jesus for this opportunity to be 'all that we can be.'