Who tells you who you are? Your family? Your friends? Your enemies? Your conscience? Your boss?
This Sunday in worship we continue the season of Epiphany by remembering the baptism of Jesus and the Divine affirmation: “You are my beloved, my own. In you I am well pleased.” To be baptized in Christ is to claim one’s identity: “I am a child of God.”
When we’ve lost our way, become confused or forgotten who we are, it helps so much to go back and look into those waters and see our face reflected there.
Accompanying scriptures are Psalm 29 and Acts 8:14-17.