This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast. We see our life as either successes or failures, healthy or broken, moving forward or

moving backward. We like to categorize other people

and we like to therefore categorize ourselves

so that it's simpler, so that there's a sense of,

I don't know, identity, clarity, that we can just quickly give a sound bite to someone

when they ask how we're doing. Well, none of life is that simple, right? We're always a conglomeration of many

parts that are feeling many different things and experiencing many different things.

When we own that to begin with and we realize that our identity and who we are

is made up of many different parts. Then we can take different parts and work

on those different parts without sabotaging the whole. And the more we mature, the more

we grow, the more we become people that have perspective,

the more we understand this and we live into this.

In this season, I want to break apart all our identity.

I want to make it tangible for you.

The word identity, I didn't even necessarily want to name it this because it feels like something

you're supposed to figure out in middle school and then have set for the rest of your life.

Everybody I know of every age is still working it out

because we are complicated people.

And while one part of us might grow insecurity and maturity

and wholeness,

another part of us might be sinking

because we aren't paying attention to it.

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