Introduction: Religious vocation. Transgender Body. Go.
16 October 2022 AMDG I, an ambitious servant of the Lord, wounded in the world and yet hopeful in God’s providence, to you, the Reader, pilgrim of the internet. In my slow journey through the Bible, I recently started into Paul’s letters. I was struck by the following: “We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body. For we who live are constantly being given up to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you. … Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison…” (2 Corinthians 4:8-12, 16-17) ...