Children of God in a World That Measures Us

I talk about the identity crisis I see all around us, where we hand the question of who we are over to our work and our circumstances and the people watching us. I walk through the chase for the title and the letters after our name, and how arriving there gives a short moment of peace before the next insecurity shows up. What I keep coming back to is that the Father loves us whether we turn toward him or away from him, and that love never changes, and we are still his children. From that security I can go and compete and work and fail, and none of it decides who I am.