Who are we?

[arunangelo]

We are beings that are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). Since God is love (1 John 4:8), we as His image are created for love. In creating us, therefore, God invites us to a life of love with Him and our fellow human beings (Matthew 22:36-40). Love, therefore, is at the very center of human existence and the life of our soul. Without it we are devoid of joy and peace; and without love our spirit is dead (1 Cor. 13:1-4). Furthermore, because, God is love, we can never have true love for anyone unless we are free of every form of hate and are in communion with God.

Because, we are created for love, love makes us truly human, gives meaning to our lives, fulfills the innermost yearning of our hearts and brings us peace. All our acts of love are God‘s works, which He performs through us. We share in God’s divinity by allowing divine actions, which are acts of love, through us.

 

[marshalljonesjr]

Absolutely.

Another way I like to look at it...

Whose are we?

 

[yvieraebrae]

The answer to that question came to me in a personal way a few years in the form of a poem:

Who am I?​

'Who am I?' I asked.
Pondering, and silent, I listened.
I heard it in the wind that blows,
I saw it in the rivers gentle flow,
I felt it in the misty rain,
that fell upon the lilies one early summer morning.
I am a continuation of my mother and father,
but I am also a complete, unique individual,-
full of feelings, faults,
failures and many broken dreams
that have shattered like glass
upon hard pavement.
I am even more than that.
I am poetry (the music of the soul).
I am a song expressed in laughter, and tears.
I am the expression of God's love,
the extended hand of God's mercy;
flesh and blood
soul and spirit,
unworthy of His Grace
yet redeemed by the blood of Christ.​

Who am I?
I should rather ask,
”Who is Christ in me?”
He is my life,
my reason for living.
He is my uniqueness
and my completeness.
He is everything I am not:
righteousness, peace, love, and mercy.
His life in me is a gift.
His plans for me are beyond imagination.
I am the product of His Grace,
Alive because of His love and mercy.
Does that make me special?
No, just thankful and humbled!
I am a child of God​

 

[Medievalarmy]

That poem is amazing. so amen.