Thankful when children remind you, that you are really a king. Happened this weekend with a young astute friend at our thanksgiving gathering. She told me, “You have a throne, and it is really cool.” When children treat you as a king, it makes you stand or sit into your best self, or at least try.
So, i’m trying on my crown today, trying to get used to it—the whole co-heir thing (no longer slaves, but sons and daughters, co-heirs—Galatians 4.)
Our royalty is certainly not based on performance, but through Another’s royal-ness, we are nevertheless regal—reflectors of royalty! Might as well get used to it-our particular radiances, as St. Paul puts it. Try on our costumes down here until we get used to them.
I love spiritual costuming. Dress as your real self, until you get used to it. Or as, the German film maker, Wim Wenders put it, “try on that outfit, until you feel like yourself” (from his documentary, “notebook on cities and clothes”-a great documentary by the way! A German, carefully and kindly, and keenly observing a Japanese artist!).
I love this idea of fashion as healing or part of making us whole. The outer expression teaching our inner lives to shine!
Amy and I want to throw a party where everyone dresses as their eternal selves. Of course, it would take time to find the right costumes, but what a cool party that would (will) be. Nice to rehearse while here anyway.