Are you who you want to be?

I am going to a Switchfoot concert tonight, and so naturally I’ve been listening to them in order to get more pumped up for it!! And so I was listening to one of their oldies This is your life, I couldn’t help but think about the question they were asking. “This is your life, are you who you want to be?” I know that for me, as I seek to become more of who God created me to be, I am able to more genuinely say, yes, to that question. But this is a very hard question. We are daily surrounded by so many people, media, and stories of people and things we want to be, that it is hard to say yes to that question. I spent some time thinking about this, and was soon led to one of my recent friends, that I began meeting with this year who has special needs and speaks of the sadness she has when she thinks of how the seizures she suffered as a child have affected her. I think she is content, but I wonder if many struggle with saying yes to that question as well.

As I seek to see beauty in everyone, seeing the value in everyone and viewing them as masterpieces perfectly crafted into who God wanted them to be. I ask myself, how can I, if needed, help those I work with to answer yes to the question “this is your life are you who you want to be?” I think this more fully gets at the idea of seeing unique and beautiful value in everyone. Yes, we all have dreams of who we want to be, but at the end of the day, are we content with who God created us to be?