A while back, I attended a Zoom meeting where the question was asked,

“How do you think you are known, or how would you like to be known?”

I wonder what the first thought was that flitted through your mind as you read that. 

Are you known as the person you would like to be known as?

Does it matter?

In a word, what is your identity?

And, how important is identity?

Very, according to my therapist.

Identity is the core of each person, and is comprised of three parts, she said.

Who I think I am.

Who my close friends think I am.

Who God thinks I am.

When all three agree, that is my identity.

And, it doesn’t take very much looking to see what happens when any one of those three doesn’t match the other two, or, worse yet, when all three disagree. 

I’d venture an opinion that some of the larger buildings and businesses in this land stem from such a disagreement.

Perhaps even national empires.

That they agree matters.

Undeniably.