Who are you?

After writing the post from JP2 yesterday I have been thinking a lot about who I am.  In order to live fully as God intended me to live, I need to know fully who I am.  This may sound weird, but discovering my inner self is one of my favorite things to do.  Last semester I took a poetry class on a whim as an elective.  Who knew that it would be one of the most influential classes of my college career.  I learned about a gift that I never knew I had, and from that class I have been able to speak at a poetry symposium and get published in the JMU literary magazine.  Sometimes when I sit down and think about it I think it is crazy weird that my Senior year of college I learned this about myself.  My professor was great and she really helped us to probe into our lives and find out who we are, what moves us, what drives us.  Most of you know that I am a person who is very in touch with my emotions.  For a long time, this was something I was embarrassed about.  But in the past few years, I have been able to understand that it is a part of who I am, and if I reject it, I am rejecting a gift from God.  All of these things are part of my self discovery.  In order to serve and love the God who made me, I need to be in touch with who He really made me to be, even if it's an unexpected gift or circumstance.  Because I am made in His image, the deeper I know my own heart, the deeper I know my God.   I was listening to an Anberlin song while I was driving yesterday and some lyrics go, "If you can't find yourself, then how can I expect to find you."  In terms of romantic relationship, if we don't know ourselves then we cannot fully give ourselves to another.  If we don't know and love who we are then how can someone truly know and love us?