I've seen so many people struggle with identity too. I think the problem is that we are basing our identity on all of the wrong things. We are choosing to be solely identified by our accomplishments, by our jobs, by our children, by spouses, by our homes, and on and on it goes. We are quick to substitute temporary identities for our TRUE identity which is or should be a child of God. A beloved disciple. Formed uniquely in our mother's womb.
Your path led through the sea,
your way through the mighty waters,
though your footprints were not seen. Ps 77
i'm feeling discontent...and selfish...
but the real problem is that i don't want to do anything about it.
We have to take captive the negative thoughts and retrain them to think the way Christ would think.
Maybe in the times when I’m dissatisfied with my life and particularly my faith, it’s because I’m not receiving all that God wants me to receive. Maybe. Probably.
Jesus loves me, this I know - the baby Jesus, the adult Jesus, especially the jesus in my heart.
For the bible tells me so.
I didn't remember much about my grandmother, she died when I was three.. Just puffy ankles, her salt and pepper shaker collection and the aprons she wore. I wear her initial ring in memory of my dad. Her name was Alice.
"Peace is not the absence of problems. Peace is finding the power from God to meet those problems"
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