Five Minute Friday: Identity

I am linking up with Lisa-Jo for Five Minute Friday: Identity.

GO.

Most days I am still learning who I am.  I am a wife, a mother, a sometimes teacher, a friend.  Inside I still feel like a little kid and reality has not set in that I am 35 years old and caring for people to grow up into their own.

I look in the mirror and don’t believe that she is me.  She is not who I wanted to be, and sometimes I do not like her.  I do not want to be her.  I wanted to have long beautiful hair.  I wished it could be red.  But my hair has neither the quality to be grown long nor the ability to be dyed red due to my skin complexion.

I sigh.  And turn away.  And wish for something better.

But then I look into His mirror.  It seems a magic mirror and I have to tell myself that His mirror is the only true mirror.

What His mirror says is that I am created in His image.  I am beautiful.  I am Chosen by Him.  {Say what?}  I am His adopted child.  Now this is bizarre because I cannot image anyone wanting to choose this me that I am.  I am loved.  I am planned.  I am included with Him.  And most marvelous of all my life somehow reflects Him – it testifies to His grace.  And I still cannot believe it, so I wake up each morning and preach this fabulous good news to myself.

STOP.

Tired eyes from lack of sleep and hair shorter than I would like.  Somehow I’m the praise of His glory.

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.   In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.”  Ephesians 1:3-14