...that you may declare

the wonderful deeds of Him

who called you out of darkness

  into His marvelous light.

Once you were no people

  but now you are God's people;

once you had not received mercy

  but now

      you have received mercy.

                 1 Peter 2. 9-10

(May that difference be evident

in everything about you.

It's who you are,

      forgiven and redeemed.

Nothing can ever be the same.

Live that way.)