Without Identity
Fear plays a large role in directing the actions and activities of our lives. Fear has a tendency to imprison us. Fear stops more people from doing something incredible with their lives than lack of ability, contacts, resources, or any other single variable. Fear paralyzes the human spirit. Our faults and failings have a tendency to eat away at us inside, but great freedom is born from bringing our darkness into the light. Darkness cannot survive the light. While we hide our faults and failings, they grow larger and develop a power over us. Before we know it, we are planning our days around our self-destructive habits [...] and the more we try to hide these faults and weaknesses, the more power they tend to have over us. [Matthew Kelly] I walked into a new church expecting to blend into the background, yet another nameless face in a sea of canvases. The best thing about moving, I thought, was to be without identity. To be...