Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Who am I?

Here are some of my thoughts. We can never completely know how people see us, unless they tell us of course. We can only control their perception to a point then it's up to them. And I don't believe that our identities are made of what people can see or hear.
I think we in the western world, with a greek way of thinking of things, love to compartmentalize everything, including identity. We are so influenced by our media and "scholars", that we are uncomfortable until we can put something or someone in a neat little corner of our mind or classify it. We seem to be desperately trying to put everything we know in to some form catagory so as to market it or buy it or understand it , to mabey have control or something, I don't know.
What I do know is this; God has made us in his image, he is infinite, we are not,though there are many numerous facettes to our existance.
We all feel things differently, see things differently, respond to things differently.
Something that is almost too big to fathom, yet sounds cliche, and yet brings hope, to me anyway, is that everyone of us is UNIQUE. No one's identity can be lumped with anyone else's. There can be similarities with others but "who we are", who I am, is me.

I say all this even as i have yet to know what I want to do with my life. I have desires and interests, but alas, I always come back to the conclusion that I would get tired of doing them so i don't want to waste my time or money persueing them till I know I've found the one. To your shock and dismay being a Front End SUPERvisor isn't all that SUPER.

7 Comments:

Blogger PeaceLoveandJay said...

It's good to see your voice again, I hope you had a refreshing time at P.D.F. even though it's not called P.D.F. anymore. The cool thing about not knowing what we want to do with our lives is that God does. I'm reading through a Stuart Briscoe devotional, and this morning he looked at Jeremiah 1 and God's promise to do that which he set out to do through Jeremiah, by His equipping. It really encouraged me for where I am right now but it also seems to tie in with some of your thoughts.
on another note, a musical one. I think you should check out Josh Garrels, Jimmy Needham, and Shawn McDonald, if you havent already.

7:40 AM  
Blogger Jason said...

I assume they are musicians. hey I'm learning french, cool, EH? I just started taking a sofware course used by the state department, plus I'm going to ask our church friends from France to teach me as well, so hopefully in a couple months I'll be speaking reasonable French.

1:27 PM  
Blogger PeaceLoveandJay said...

Ca cest cool, je pensce cest une bonne idee...... I think.

10:54 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, cool post. I was thinking about that yesterday--how different everyone is from each other. No wonder we can't possibly compare our individual spiritual walks! Surely we're each so different that we all experience a relationship with God in a different way, and God must only require as much faith from us as He uniquely instilled in us to have. Think?

[why isn't p.d.f. called p.d.f anymore? I hadn't heard that--that's so weird. I'm Julienne from Leslie's second year by the way.]

1:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I NEVER KNEW IT WASNT CALLED PDF! WHAT HAPPENED?!

10:52 PM  
Blogger PeaceLoveandJay said...

It's called Capernway Quebec because the is a centre in France now called P.D.F.

3:26 PM  
Blogger leslie said...

what a jerk centre went and stole our name!! GOSH!


ps-i miss jason's blogging. my heart is sad when i log on to see nothing new.

12:20 PM  

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