Five-Minute Friday – Identity

I’ve been wanting to join Lisa-Jo’s 5-Minute-Friday prompts for a while, and since I’m taking a bit of time to recharge this week, I have the perfect opportunity to participate. Five minutes of free-writing feels pretty appealing right now.

The rules are pretty simple, and pretty easy.

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.
3. Please visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments.

All right. Here goes.

Identity. Who am I? I’m nobody, and everybody, and crazy wild. I asked God once who I was, and He told me that I am “the righteousness of God.” I used to think that because I’m a woman, I was made to be a wife and a mother, and later that changed to a “helpmeet,” but what in the world was that, anyway? And then I learned that a helpmeet could be a “life saver,” someone who invited those she loved to life, and this is what I do. So maybe I’m not nobody at all, maybe I’m just supposed to live, and that is my identity, just being alive.

I don’t think I’m this or that or the other thing – defining my identity is really hard, because He put eternity in my heart, which makes me inherently really deep like Him – makes who I am able to have a relationship with who He is, makes life meaningful at all. I get to see that in others too; find their identity, love Him in them. Maybe we’re all nobody, and everybody and crazy wild. Because that’s kind of what He is, I think. That is what it means to be – “I Am.”

Wow. Free-writing is interesting. I have NOT done it for a while. Fantastic prompt, Lisa-Jo! I’m so excited to play today!