A devotional for misfits, outcasts, black sheep, scapegoats and other nefarious types.
Do you “step in it?’”
Stick your “foot in your mouth?”
Struggle with food, booze, spending or another unlikable, frustrating, destructive behavior?
Is shame your constant companion?
Critical voices?
Control, control, control?
Anxious much?
Stopped a destructive behavior and wonder “what now?”
Put it together and THEN read the instructions?
Voted most likely to fail?
Read every self-help book, attended self-help seminars, attended support groups, even churches and still…
Welcome! I’m a professional Black Sheep! Let’s travel together and “be renewed by the transforming of our minds.”
“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So, he got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate. Luke 15:18-24 NIV
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2 NIV Emphasis mine.
Prayers and Musings of a Black Sheep 