FINDING WHO YOU ARE
I know it is common in the teenage years and even perhaps early adulthood to question yourself about who you really are, however, it kinds of fade away as you advance in years and you just assume you know 'who you are'.
I personally think that life experiences can either be conducive to your ability to know yourself or hinder you from doing so! Plus the person that you are may be seen differently in different circumstances and by different people.
On a day to day basis, I am a mother, most importantly, I feel like being a mother is the only thing I am as it takes most of my time and my energy.
When everything is quiet and the kids are sleeping at night, and when I can then look and think about some of the things I have done or achieved over the years, the mother slowy makes place for another person.
Conclusion: Doing is being
I think therefore that whatever you do is extremely important in the definition of yourself. You obviously have certain characteristics a an individual which will determine your being as a mother, a professional, an artist etc, whatever it is that you do, but what you do, also impacts on your conscious knowledge of who you are.
I agree that we all tend to identify strongly with what we do. I do place being a mother higher on my list than writer or whatever else I do, but it is very fulfilling to use your God given talents......... and to re-evaluate what they are and what you want to do with them on a regular basis. Good entry! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's the issue were are shaped with the way we are brought up and the surrounding as well as fear to challenge what has been accepted for decades.
ReplyDeletePeople do not have an absolute right to choose their way of life, belief, food etc. They are designed and framed along repeated observation and direct teachings.
We are therefore victims and products of our environments.
You have spoken about Christianity. I am an adventist as well. But did we really choose to be Christians. Did Muslims have enough time and freedom to choose to be Muslims. Did they have many other religions to choose from?
Could the Pope have been an Adventist? Did he grow in an environment where he could have been and adventist or a Muslim. Could Saddam have been a Christian all things being equal. Can things be equal? Could George Bush have been a Catholic had he been born in Iraq? Could Yasser have been a Muslim had he been born in a Catholic family. Does Catholic mean the same as Christan.My answers to all those rhetoric questions are: " maybe , maybe not? We simply don't have answers to a lot of questions about things that affect us.
It is fortunate to be Christians and view things as Christians but who defines Christianity? Are Protestants as Christian as Romans/catholics and vice versa. Milk from a cow, meat from the same cow, are they the same thing. I know people who eat meat but do drink milk and vice versa. OS what are we?
I have come to a conclusion that we are merely ignorant people of God and thats is why we need only his grace ti save us. Image of God. is it the spiritual image or the flesh material image? Is he material. No so do we know what really the image is ? Are we told why Jesus did not marry?
Are we told in clear terms from whose descendant was Cain's wife. Are we expected to make logical conclusions this time around? are we expected to assume now? Human nature has distorted their history in trying to make it understandable.Is it anybody's duty to make history make sense. Isn't where the distortions come from? New English Version? where is the Iraqi version? Did Jesus ever go to England? Where is the African version. before the colonial era, Africans used to say Ungwali of Mwari, uNkulunkulu, Uthixo. Al these words referred to a supernatural power that is responsible;e for existence and unknown answers, whose presence is nit questionable.?
So are we correct to say Christianity only introduce Jesus but not God. Can't we have a relationship with God outside Christianity?
If Christianity was to be the sole method of worship, were 31 years enough for Jesus to teach people on the ways of life from A to Z?
I JUST DONT KNOW..........? I need his Grace.
Wow... there is a lot in there. We are definitly prodcucts of our environment and we have to be, it is not a matter of choice, however we can to some extent change our environment. In a world void of specific context or environment or shaped by totally homogeneous environment, which is not realistically thinkable, would we logically be nothing or all the same? Thank God the world is as it is really!!
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