what am I?

There is no conflict that does not entail

the single simple question, “what am I?”

every decision you make

stems from what you think you are,

and represents the value that you put upon yourself

                                                Gifts from a course in Miracles, Vaughan & Walsh

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It’s a good question

“what am I?”

am I a 63 year old male Caucasian?

am I a poet

a writer

a preacher

a counselor?

am I a collection of my successes

or the sum of my failures?

am I my education,

or my Mennonite heritage?

am I the physical being,

the flesh and bones

that now slowly ages into a

different shape than it once was?

am I my mind

or my soul?

am I a son

or father

brother or

friend

how I see myself

how I choose to define who I am

profoundly impacts

everything

if I think I am my failures

then I am guilt and remorse

if I think I am my weaknesses

then I am anxiety and fear

if I think I am my body

then I might well be depressed

but if I think I am what I really am

God’s child

one loved by God

complete in God

then I am peace

then I am joy

then I am love

and I am

utterly and completely

a child of God

and so

are

you