Family Focus
BELONGING TO ANOTHER Karen Bates
“Who am I?” Many of us struggle with this question at different times in our lives. The question can come when a radical change occurs, such as the birth of a child or children leaving home.
The change can be when bereavement occurs, a job dissolves, or a new occupation is found. It can come as we meet different points in the aging process–adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, and older age.
The question strikes most often when we feel the roots of our self-identity shaking. It grabs us when what we have counted on for our self-definition–a person, an activity, or a status–simply is no longer there.
The Christian has a refuge when the question comes around. First of all, we are our Lord’s. we are Christ’s baptized and forgiven people, His instruments of love to the world. However else our self-identity twists and turns, that much, by our Lord’s own promise, will never change.