Greetings Dear Reader,
“Everyone is from somewhere, even if you’ve never been
there.” We start out the lives of our
comic book heroes with an origin story. The stories are often tragic. The hero is often orphaned or abandoned. Something terrible happens in his or her life
that brings on a moment of crisis and then transformation.
From the ashes of tragedy and loss rise those who choose to
be better than the circumstances around them. There is a day when we decide
what we will be and on which side of things we will land. We decide to be hidden or we decide to live
up to our calling. We draw on our origin
as part of the choosing process.
For too long we often let that origin define us. We allow where we began to determine where we
are going. The tragedy, loss, and pains of our former
years keep filling up our future, hindering us from becoming what we can
become. We fail to let the past be
prologue. We forget that we decide what
today will be for us.
The origin story matters but it does not determine. It does not have any power not given it by
us. Even the worst of us can embrace
today as an opportunity to be better, to be what we are destined to be as
Christ followers.
When Uncle Ben is killed because Peter Parker did not stop
the bandit when he could we see the causality that gives us Spiderman. Out of his failure rises a hero because he
makes the choice to be different. I must
own my failures and make today different.
I must embrace that my origin must not determine my destiny. Fortunately for me, the hero I follow neither
falls nor fails.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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Contacts for Aramis
Thorn:
Bookings at aramisthorn@aramisthorn.com
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