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Mia Pohlman

Mia Pohlman is a writer for rustmedia, producing content for Flourish Magazine, B Magazine, TBY and Mind + Body.

Amazement in our worth and dignity

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Pope John Paul II defined Christianity as "deep amazement at man's worth and dignity." I love this because I think this must be why God chose to come here as a human to save us: He was deeply amazed by us, his creations, and wanted so badly for us to believe our own worth and dignity -- the worth and dignity he placed inside us when he made us in his image -- that he decided to become human, to show us that being human is good and holy, that it is enough. He wanted to save us from ourselves and our own unbelief, to restore our trust in his words that declared us very good at our creation.

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