Who are you?

Hello my friends– yup it’s me.. your delinquent blogging friend.
Sorry friends. I didn’t forget about you.. not sure what happened.
Maybe it was the lazy days of the end of summer feeling.
Or maybe it was because I have been super busy lately with some fun exciting ministry stuff like speaking and helping a new church plant that I am super excited about…

Regardless..
Forgive me.  Would you accept my humble apologizes.  If you were here with me right now I would buy you a Starbucks… we could sit down next to each other and I could hear what is going on in your life.  Well if it is under 10.00.. that’s how much I have left on my Starbucks gift card.
So here’s us sharing a virtual cup

Starbucks did not enforce my random advertisement for them on the blog.. lol but if they want to give me free coffee.. anytime.. 
I am game!
Ok. so I have a question for you.  Who are you?
Whew how’s that for a biggie of a question?
It’s just something I have been contemplating lately.
So when you meet new people what’s usually the first thing they ask you in the initial chit chat.
Once you get past the how are you and the what’s your name, the next thing they ask is usually
What do you do?
And usually your description of what you do defines to them who you are.
Does anyone else but me sometimes have a hard time answering that question.
It always makes me want to laugh.  I want to say it depends on which moment of the day you are asking me.
For some maybe it’s an easier answer then others:  I’m a student, I’m a mom, I’m an administrative assistant (please please if you are looking for a job that doesn’t pay anything Coming Alive Ministries would love to hire you!) I’m a butcher a baker a candlestick maker (lol that came to my mind and I just googled it and found out that is a nursery rhyme I didn’t just make that up) 
It’s so easy to define ourselves by our roles.
But the more we define ourselves by our roles, the more pressure it puts on those roles. 
The more pressure to perform, gain approval, be recognized in that role.
These roles begin to define who we are.
I am realizing something very cool and freeing.
What if when people asked what do you do I said I just live coming alive for the glory of Christ.Of course that would be a super weird answer to be honest, but what if in my heart that’s how I lived.
What if I defined who I am by that.
The Lord gave me that quote the other day.
Not defined by my role, but the roles others place on me, but what I am good/not good at… do/don’t do.
I am defined by the face that I have called by name by great I AM.
Jenn– called out by the GREAT I AM to be HIS.
Isaiah 43:  I have called YOU by name YOU are mine.
Who am I?
His!  
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