Who Am I?

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”     ― Thomas Merton

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Who am I?

What defines me?

Who defines me?

Am I my job

my body

my title

my wealth (or lack thereof)

my successes

my failures?

Who am I?

am I what my education has made me

am I what my family has created?

am I what other people have decided I am

using whatever criteria they have chosen

Who am I?

why do I let that one person (or more)

who don’t like me

affect me so powerfully

or even that person who does like me

who says I am wonderful?

Who am I?

I am

I am a person in whom the sacred dwells

I am a child of God

I am free

I am bound

but ultimately

it is that sacred core

it is that part of me that connects with God

that part of me that participates is “something greater”

that part of me that is loved

and is love

that defines me

and defines the way I am

in this world

and sets me free

to be

me