Our prayer today is to claim our true belonging. 🙏

Dear Jesus-

I know I am not what I do.
Neither the best thing I’ve done nor the worst.

I know I am not what I have.
Neither what I have in abundance nor in scarcity.

I know I am not what others say about me.
Neither the accolades nor the criticisms.

I know my true identity, my belonging, does not come from me.
It is not self-generated.
It cannot be earned.

The answer to what I am is simple,
I am beloved.

My belonging requires nothing of me.
It is my inheritance.

Show me how to claim it.
To live into it.
To wear it like a warm sweater.

Amen