Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:
The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Cor. 5:17
Resting my new paperback Bible on my belly, I read that passage lying in bed the night of my conversion, January 25, 1976. My lightened load told me something was truly new. I was relieved, freed, hopeful, and thankful. Yet, even after 49 years, it…