Tag: identity
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Fashioned for Dependence: Losing Myself

Home. Security. Familiarity. Proximity to family and friends. Comfort. Those things I knew I would lose when we made the decision to move overseas. One thing I didn’t expect to lose? My identity. It’s my own fault. Growing up in our productivity-driven western culture, for most of my life my identity had been seamlessly woven into what I…
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Living in Expectation

Fashioned by God: Living in Expectation I’ll never forget that Sunday morning message I heard almost fifteen years ago. Our pastor delivered a sermon on the spiritual concept of expectation. In my opinion, the text he read is one of the most poignant passages that demonstrates a life of expectation illustrated in the bible. It…