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In his book Mir Christianity, CS Lewis describes what he calls good pretending.

It is one of the ways we use our imagination to enhance our spiritual condition.

For example, bad pretending is simply, well, hypocrisy.

It's when we pretend to be something we're not.

But good pretending is when we practice being who we are in Christ.

Bad pretending is a substitute for reality.

But good pretending is when the disguise leads us to the fact.

Are you ever hypocritical and pretending to be someone or something you aren't?

Well, this meditation from James 1 is a reflection of good pretending.

I pray you can contemplate what it means to be who you already are in Christ at this

present moment, by his grace and his love.

He has transformed you into his precious child.

So let's stop pretending.

And let's begin this time of meditation by settling deeper into wherever you are, the

place in a time to simply rest.

No worldly objectives to achieve, no pretending.

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