My mother is cinnamon-skinned, and my father is a kind of dirty French vanilla. My sister is a café espresso, while I am something called a jabao'. No, don get it wrong; for us, these aren't derogatory ways that people think we use about race—not that I would know. In fact, they are mostly terms of endearment—at least for me. I may have a light skin, but it's still slightly burned. I may speak fluent English like the next guy, but my Spanish is still peppered with that delightful mixture of Andalusian and Canarian delights people dismiss as vulgar and confusing. Nevertheless, I never admit I'm white: there's still something about the nappy hair and the big nose that throws the illusion away. People may say I'm black or that I speak like a Dominican, but I don't care: God made me like this, and to Him I am indebted.
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How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? -Job 25:4, NIV Part I
Part 2 Some see worth as having gathered the greatest amount of resources in an average seventy-year span. Others see worth as achieving all your goals in an average seventy-year run. Even others see worth as having the best bankable body. Still others see worth as letting their conscience drive their actions- and not subjected under the control of the state. If one has already figured it out, worth will never be defined the same way by two different people. It changes depending on who you ask, or who you are. But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot. –Jeremiah 20:9, NIV Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning. –James 1:17, DARBY Translation Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. The LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?” –Zechariah 3:1 & 2, NIV |
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