Wednesday, April 9: Kim Malcolm

2 Corinthians 3:1-2. Do we, like some people, need letters of introduction to you, or from you? No, you are all the letter we need, a letter written on our heart, anyone can see it for what it is and read it for him or herself.

It can be almost constant, can’t it, that pressure to prove that we belong? We list our accomplishments on our resumes, update our Linked In profiles, try to figure out how to brag without looking like we’re bragging on Facebook (it’s called “facebragging,” you can look it up on urbandictionary.com). 

We read the room, looking for folks who look like us, in the hopes that we’ll have something in common and so we’ll be understood. We’re constantly presenting our letters of introduction, hoping we’ll pass muster.

But Paul reminds us: through Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, we are all the letter that is needed. The Spirit has written God’s promise on my heart, and yours, and we are transparently the fulfillment of that promise in our love for one another. May I remember this, the next time I walk into a crowded room.

And as for you, it is plain that you are a letter that has come from Christ, given to us to deliver; a letter written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, written not on stone tablets but on the pages of the human heart.

—Kim Malcolm