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30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 2 Cor. 12:10 Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong. Me, coming to Christ: a little old woman at church, saying I would become a pastor (age 8). No follow up from her. Mr. Procopio, a chain – smoking music teacher and lover of jazz saxophone; a devout catholic Christian who got me reading the bible, the early church fathers and Thomas Aquinas. “What is truth?” brother Mark, who became a flaming, disruptive, immature evangelist in our family and just about burned all his bridges in doing so. counselor at camp, who gave me a question for a question and silenced me about whether God existed. girlfriend Barb, whose simple, honest, and consistent faith was lived in her life, a powerful witness to God’s love through Jesus Christ. What are the chances? But God, rich in mercy and grace through Jesus Christ, came to me, presented his love to me, hung in there with me, and put up with me. I am saved from sin and saved to eternal life through Jesus, because of these imperfect vessels, these people who made themselves of no account so I would have all things through Jesus. You never know when God will use you.. to bring saving grace to someone else who God loves! When we are praising God instead of whining, then we are in a place where God can use us to spread the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ.