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Who Am I?

Songs often get stuck in my head. Often it isn't anything that I want to keep on replay. Several days ago a song came to me. No worries I am not turning "Nashville" and becoming a song writer. It was an already written song. The recurring verse, "Who am I that you are mindful of me?" I didn't know what God was doing but I was certain there was something moving inside me. So I wrote it on top of the board in my office.

Maybe because I am a little slower to hear or maybe because my timing is not God's timing it didn't come to me until today. All day today I have been singing this verse. Why is this particular song stirring in my spirit? This afternoon at Starbucks over a delicious Peppermint Mocha and a great conversation with one of the precious young ladies that I get the privilege of serving another seemingly unrelated idea came about. We should find a bible study that we could do together. So we headed to Lifeway to seek out the perfect study for such a time and season as this one in both of our lives. After much searching we agreed on, "Being Yourself-How Do I Take Off This Mask?"


I open it this afternoon to dig in and the first three words of the introduction read, "Who are you?" Looks like I  am on a journey to rediscover the ageless question, "Who Am I?" The wonderful thing this time is that I am certain of the great I AM and that is where I begin.

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