Personal identity is a hot topic in today’s diverse and crazy world. The age of the individual has arrived. From the iPhone to the fashion icon, the focus is on personal satisfaction and happiness. However there is a dark side to all of the talk about identity. Each day thousands of people have their identities stolen. Others try to change their identity in order to ‘fit in’ and to be accepted by those with whom they work or live. The truth of the matter is everyone, if honest, will come to the conclusion that knowing one’s self is a life time of learning and it calls for a great amount of humility, to come to terms with the truth about ourselves.
Help us then not to shrink from the cost or the transition,
but make us anew into a people of character and compassion,
who will indeed "Do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God",
Help us then not to shrink from the cost or the transition,
but make us anew into a people of character and compassion,
who will indeed "Do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God",
