Show Yourselves!
Come out and show yourselves! This is what the Lord said to the People through the Prophet Isaiah ( Is. 49:8-15 ) in today's first reading. Do we hide who we really are because we are ashamed of who we believe that we are? Do we believe the lies about ourselves that the world drills into our minds? God says to us: " Come out and show yourselves! " We must not believe in the lies what others and the world say about who we are. Who we are is not based on any material thing. We are not what we do. We are not what we have. We are not what others say that we are. The essence of who we are is rooted in the Father. We are children of God. We are His beloved ones. Our true identity lies in something that is eternal , and nothing that is temporal and limited . If we root our identity in things that are not permanent and transient, we are guaranteed to get hurt and eventually find ourselves confused and sad. ...