"What is your root? What doesn't waver in your life even when you experience changes?"
This was the question of our discussion on Friday night.
At our weekly BEST club meeting we played games, students practiced English, and we had a discussion about identity. We talked about how we can know who Jesus is, and we discussed our own identity.
My group talked about the idea that at different points in our life we have different "identities". It is like our life is a tree and each phase of life is a different branch. But there is something that remains constant in each phase of life - the root - that is our identity. What is my root? What is the thing that does not change even as my life branches out and grows?
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| Mount Fuji is one of the ways that God reminds me of his love for me. This photo was taken a few weeks ago on our way home from Shizuoka. |
One student shared that his identity is to be a hero for those around him, another shared that hers is to be a joyful person who never gives up! What inspiring friends I have! I shared that my identity is a person who is loved by God.
I've continued to think about this. The one thing that does not change in my life is that I am loved by God. As I learn to live in a new culture, and have a new job, new friends, a new language to learn, new mailing address, new mode of transportation, new everything, it is so crucial that I remember the one thing that can't change, the one thing that can't fail, even when I do! I'm loved by the creator God. That gives me stability and purpose no matter which branch I'm currently growing.
So, friends, what is your root? What doesn't change even when you or your circumstances do?
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| View of Fuji from my neighborhood on a clear December afternoon. |
