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# 40 Years of Becoming.
- URL: https://www.belonging.house/40-years-of-becoming/
- Published: 2025-06-06T10:01:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-24T23:51:20.000Z
- Description: All things are possible.
- Author: Christ John Otto
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1784937001272, #Import 2026-07-24 23:50

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThanks for your prayers.  
  
Forty years ago  
a dinner guest reached across my grandmother's dining room table  
and asked me if **I wanted to be born again**.  
I said "yes."  
  
My grandmother was horrified.  
  
If you read these Friday emails  
you know that I have not had   
the **conventional**   
Christian experience.  
I naïvely took the Bible as true,  
and was hungry for the Holy Spirit.  
These were the ingredients for  
adventure,  
triumphs,  
tragedies,  
challenges,  
persecutions,  
blessings,  
and defeats.  
  
A lot happens in forty years.  
  
**I have never been alone,**  
even in strange places with no friends.  
I have left mother, father, houses and lands,  
and I have seen God give me a new family.  
Jesus has always been with me.  
He is good.  
He forgives.  
**He is more committed to me than I am.**  
  
I have not gotten it perfect,  
or even *right* at times.  
I have fallen back into sin  
and addiction.  
I have had to **come back to Jesus** in tears.  
I **am** being healed,  
transformed,  
and changed into His Image.  
I guess,  
like the skin horse in the *Velveteen Rabbit,*  
I am becoming **real.**  
  
Becoming real only happens  
when you **embrace the truth of who you are,**  
and surrender to the Holy Spirit.  
It is a never-ending process of becoming.  
Jesus in me  
is transforming me into his likeness.  
  
And the things I am learning,  
in the process of becoming,  
work for others.  
God wastes nothing.  
  
Maybe forty years means  
I am moving into the "promised land"  
or something.  
More likely,  
it means tomorrow I wake up,  
ask God what the agenda is  
and again I take life on his terms.  
  
All things are possible  
if you keep believing  
**and keep going.**  
  
Thank you Jesus.  
  
He Never Fails,  
Christ  
  
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