Greetings …

In the last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about the times in our lives when we aren’t satisfied with who we are.  There are young people who don’t feel they measure up to the media images of the ‘ideal’ they are supposed to be.  Others, as they age, struggle with the fact that they are less able to do the things that they once were.

No matter where we are in life, it can be difficult to be satisfied with who we are.  Yet I am reminded that in the creation story we hear that we are made in the image of God.  If we are able to hold that as reality, then I wonder how it might inform how we see ourselves, and one aother, through all the stages of our lives.

I came across these words from CS Lewis on Tuesday and I felt they spoke into what I’d been thinking about …

I would rather be what God chose to make me
   than the most glorious creature that I could think of;
   for to have been born in God’s thought
   and then made by God
   is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing
   in all thinking.

Let us always remember that no matter what the world says, God always calls us beloved.

Blessings – Rev  Heather Hon (she/her).