Who Are You?

A story, first told on President Bush, speaks to our sense of identity. The story has it that George Bush was visiting the residents of a nursing home. He struck up a conversation with an elderly woman.

"Hi! How are you?" the president asked. "Hello," she replied. "How are you?" "Do you know who I am?" asked the president.

"No," she said, pointing to the nurse's station. "But if you go over to that desk and ask that woman she can tell you who you are."

"Who you are" probably depends on whom you ask. You are a child to your parents and a brother or sister to a sibling. Or perhaps you are a parent or a grandparent. But you are more than these relationships.

Or if you ask those you spend the most time with, they may tell you that you are a teacher or a student or a homemaker or an engineer. But you are also more than what you do each day.

"Who you are" is not just about what you buy, what you do or who you are related to. You and I are more than that. Some people believe they are human beings having a spiritual experience. Others believe they are human beings having a spiritual experience. Others believe they are spiritual beings having a human experience. I like the latter, for it puts everything in perspective. It reminds me that my troubles as well as my triumphs, all my roles and all my relationships, my past and my future are all temporary, for I am more than this human life.

It helps to know who you are.

-Author Unknown