Do You Know Who You Are?

Recently i've met so many people who are just struggling to stay on their feet, but they want so much more from life. They don't want to give up but hey don't know how to stay up. This post is for them. Holding your nerve. Getting up in the morning to face the day. Engaging with the everyday issues of living, these experiences can sometime be overwhelming. There are times when we're not even sure who we are. To often we're trying too hard to please this person and please the next person. Holding on to an identity that grounds us and saves us from being swept overboard can be an almost impossible challenge. Too often we're ashamed of our past or even our family tree. The world is full of people who want to be someone else. Recently I was reminded of Henri Nouwen the well know 20th century thinker and theologian. Have a listen to this sermon preached by Nouwen in which he speaks so passionately about the love of God and knowing that you were the beloved child of the father. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAHT4l3jVY&feature=related[/youtube] Do you know he once spent three or four days just sitting in front of Rembrant's painting of the Prodigal Son. He said it changed him from the inside out as he began to understand what it meant to know that he was loved by the father unconditionally. I don't know about you but after hearing this sermon I was greatly encouraged. All of us are much more that we will ever imagine. If we could plant ourselves in the love of God how differently we might look upon ourselves and on others.

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