Who I am...
I read recently that people are maturing much later in life because they are spending so much time trying out their many assumed roles and just filling their lives with “busyness”…All for what?
We have become a society that stresses the importance of finding ourselves, who we are. Yet, we have parameters on that definition…education, careers, hobbies, accomplishments, memberships, likes and dislikes.
At work, one of my co-workers thought it would be good to let the community know who we are through a small profile on each staff member in our upcoming newsletters. We were asked to answer several questions, including the following…
Job Title:
Hobbies:
Future Dreams:
But does that really define me? I am tired of trying to fit into a box of achievements. Aren’t we making it too hard and too complicated, running from one thing to another so we can keep adding things to our list of who we are?
If Christ is within us, working through us, shouldn’t we just simply be…love?
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6 comments:
wow, great point! i am intelligent, gorgeous, witty, gracious, and humble, but I am tired of always having to fit in that box that people expect of me :):):) ok, that was a joke...but you are right! We shouldn't put parameters on who we are, but let God work through us so we can be anything He wants us to be! Love you tons and tons and tons!!!
You always have such thoughtful posts. That's one reason I love reading them so much...and to find out all the cool things you are doing with me! :) It is so easy to only know surface things about people and not really get to know who they are or who they want to become.
how true, we often spend some much time trying to discover ourselves and i think we make it too complicated sometimes. it's good to just BE and be satisfied in that when we're following Christ.
WOW!
Very well put! It seems so normal to just keep adding to our lists and trying to be more and more. But to simply be love, what could be better?
Jason
Great thoughts.
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