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Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Becoming emotionally secure enough
• During difficult decisions
• To help others become
• The best version of themselves

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from Useless

I am… odious.

I stare at the remorseful hunter
That fragment of myself
Who shot me and dolphin-Jesus
With connected arrows

I loath what I must do
But am running out of
Time
Energy
Self

I look to My Father.

I feel peace descending on me
Like a dove

With my last strength
I pull the thread
To yank the arrow
With the eye and brain of Jesus

Dip it in the blood
Pouring from my side

Limp over to the hunter
And say
With my last breath:

“The only way
Any of us can be saved
Is if you take and eat”

Then I die

The hunter looks to me.

At my outstretched arm
Holding the bloody viscera

His gorge rises within him
It is too much

He turns and vomits
Over the beach soaked with his tears

He lifts his eyes
To the Jesus he slew
Cries out
Beats his breast

“Is there no hope
For one as wretched as I?”

The Father answers:

“Only one!”

A beam of light
Falls from heaven
On the gruesome arrow

With a cry
More of despair than hope
The hunter grabs the arrow
Jabs it viciously into his mouth

But instead
Of him consuming it…

It consumes him!

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Wretched
• Self-Loathing
• Despair
• The agony of hope
• Desperate hunger
• Seen
• Watched over
• Fathered
• Gone

Scripture

And now the Lord says— he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength— he says:
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭49‬:‭5‬-‭6‬ ‭NIV‬‬