Our True Identity – Henri Nouwen

Our identity is in the One who loves us. This saves us from our false self, which is anxiously dependent on others’ opinions and leads us to sell our souls to the world and to the Evil One who rules the world. The spiritual task is to say that a self defined by other is illusion. — The Road to Peace

Reflection Question: Whose opinion continues to affect your sense of yourself?

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! – 1 John 3: 1