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From: Karen
Date: Mon Sep 26 11:35:32 MST 2005 Subject: Identity blog

Responses
Boojeee: true (9/26/05)
Karen: All right... (9/27/05)
Karen: And yours is...? (9/26/05)
NewRyan: No Subject (9/27/05)
james: Have you met James? (9/27/05)
Karen: On with the identity (9/27/05)
Suki: Proactive Identity Formation (9/28/05)
andrea: my identity: scary (10/9/05)
Responses (sorted by date)
andrea: my identity: scary (10/9/05)
Suki: Proactive Identity Formation (9/28/05)
Karen: On with the identity (9/27/05)
Karen: All right... (9/27/05)
james: Have you met James? (9/27/05)
NewRyan: No Subject (9/27/05)
Karen: And yours is...? (9/26/05)
Boojeee: true (9/26/05)
Piggybacking on last night's sermon... what is your identity?

I am Karen, firstborn of Laura and Tom.
God has given me a passionate heart for family, friends, students, music, and language.
I offer strange dark humor; strange warrior prayers; vegetables as well as desserts; acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and Bandaids; and--once time and effort have been spent in connecting--compassionate loyalty to the bitter end.

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From: Boojeee
Date: Mon Sep 26 11:57:09 MST 2005 Subject: true

Having, I think, benefited from all of these things from you, I would like to affirm you in this identity.
Booj

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From: Karen
Date: Tue Sep 27 11:28:08 MST 2005 Subject: All right...

Thanks, Booj.... your turn? ;-)

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From: Karen
Date: Mon Sep 26 13:16:05 MST 2005 Subject: And yours is...?

To clarify: I'd like to invite y'all to post yours up, too.

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From: NewRyan
Date: Mon Sep 26 22:48:52 MST 2005 Subject:

So in the last 24 hours I've had 2 different people tell me essentially the same thing.

Son of the Most High God,

a
Warrior.
Husband.
Father.

And in both cases this was somehow me. Right now. Not something that I would become, but me in my essence. My identiity I guess you could say.

-r

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From: james
Date: Tue Sep 27 06:37:48 MST 2005 Subject: Have you met James?

I am James. A name was given to me by the parents I didn't choose. My father says I have 3 things going for me: I'm over 21, white, and free. He sends me out with those words alone and reminds me of them. My name is special -- it is the sweetest sound to me. How interesting! My eternal Father loves his name, too. He is no relative of mine but is absolutely my eternal truth.

I offer service, compassion, joy, and love to those of this little star in the universe. Yet my Father knows my name and he reminds me how precious a child I am. That is why I am reminded how precious each child is in His eyes.

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From: Karen
Date: Tue Sep 27 11:39:51 MST 2005 Subject: On with the identity

I'm remembering my mother, when I was a teenager, describing me once as a leader. I was like, *say what??** I was a shy introvert who was always behind the scenes, in the corner. Now I've been leading a classroom for almost 8 years and am just becoming comfortable w/the teacher-leadership identity. I've been in Village leadership for, I don't know, two years now? And I was shocked last November to step onto a spiritual battlefield, turn around, and then actually see friends alongside me. I'm not a leader/warrior because of me, I'm a leader/warrior because God has put me in places of leadership, and it's an awkward role to grow into, much of the time, but I can't say it's all in all a bad one.

Experiencing an identity in Christ is a bit like, well, evolving into an adolescent body--it's yours, all right, although it doesn't quite feel like it, a bit foreign, scary but also exciting. And you will get used to it. You'll grow into it. So take care of it, make good choices with it, and thereby embrace it.

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From: Suki
Date: Tue Sep 27 17:05:57 MST 2005 Subject: Proactive Identity Formation

Lately God has been showing me that I have identity as one who articulates truth. I think this happens as I ask questions to search out other people's lives, as I speak, as I play and/or write music, and as I paint. So I think that my musical pursuits and my paintings and the words I speak are good for the people in my community, because they show some part of what's on God's heart that probably wouldn't be communicated in the same way if I didn't put it out there.
I'm also a good mom. I think that there are those who learn what it means to be a mom by watching me, or who realize some of what they were supposed to have from their moms.
And I'm discovering that as I live into who I am at the core, I become a better friend. Because I'm not trying to be myself in one compartment and an elusive 'ideal friend' in another compartment. I can be the friend who is me offering myself, both in the same space; not trying to be somebody else.
What I've been thinking about this over the past two weeks is that the proactive part of identity formation for me is not just the statement of my identity, but telling people why it's a good identity and what kind of positive impact it's likely to have. That all feels arrogant to put out there in front of people. But I think covering it up is a false humility. Shame, even. And walking in the light means not just owning up to my weaknesses & sins, but also to the good that God has created/is creating in me.

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From: andrea
Date: Sun Oct 9 08:40:34 MST 2005 Subject: my identity: scary

This week, someone came into my office and excitedly said, "I just heard that you are going to be a stay at home wife". She went on to invite me to some conference about the stay at home mentality (I guess, not for sure what all the conference is about), while I was silently inside freaking out. A "stay at home wife" brings pictures of being in the 50s, wearing a nice proper dress that is always ironed, always looking pretty for when my husband decides to grace me with his appearance, and having a cocktail in hand as he comes home for the day. I.e. picture I love Lucy, Bewitched, or other 50s like show. With that title, I have every fear come to the surface again of Andrea (whoever she is) shrinking away into a dark pit to never be seen again. A stay at home wife seems that she would spend all day thinking about what to do so her husband is comfortable and happy. That is not a bad thing, but I somehow think that God made me to have more than an identity as only a wife. I had things to offer before I was a wife and I believe that I have lots to offer, even more though, now that I am a wife. Not more because I am a wife but because I see more of my true identity. I have to think more about what I see and put my true identity into words before posting again.

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