*identity

Donnette

Daughter

Granddaughter

Niece

Sister

Leader

Cousin

Enemy

Friend

Student

Best friend

Girl friend

Teacher

Fiance

Wife

Believer

Mother

Disciple

Speaker

Aunt

Mother-in-law

Grandmother

My identity in Christ

defines my role and responsibilities in relationships.

Knowing who I am in Him 

is what makes learning to live my newest identity, 

widow, 

bearable.

"See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!"
1 John 3:1a

Child of God

*identity: the qualities, beliefs, etc., 

that make a particular person or group different from others

from Merriam Webster on-line dictionary

Ephesians 2:1-10

"As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us,God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."