Who Am I - Identity Crisis of Youth Today - WORDS from a MAN! - July 10 2023

2023-07-10

WHO AM I - Identity Crisis of youth today! - WORDS from a Man Who am I? They often tell meI stepped from my cells confinementCalmly, cheerfully, firmly,Like a Squire from his country house. Who am I? They often tell meI used to speak to my wardersFreely and friendly and clearly,As thought it were mine to command. Who am I? They also tell meI bore the days of misfortuneEquably, smilingly, proudly,like one accustomed to win. Am I then really that which other men tell of?Or am I...

WHO AM I - Identity Crisis of youth today! - WORDS from a Man

Who am I? They often tell me
I stepped from my cells confinement
Calmly, cheerfully, firmly,
Like a Squire from his country house.

Who am I? They often tell me
I used to speak to my warders
Freely and friendly and clearly,
As thought it were mine to command.

Who am I? They also tell me
I bore the days of misfortune
Equably, smilingly, proudly,
like one accustomed to win.

Am I then really that which other men tell of?
Or am I only what I myself know of myself?
Restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage,
Struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat,
Yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds,
Thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness,
Tossing in expectations of great events,
Powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance,
Weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making,
Faint, and ready to say farewell to it all.

Who am I? This or the Other?
Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
And before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?
Or is something within me still like a beaten army
Fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?

Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!
Who Am I? by Deitrich Bonhoeffer

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Welcome to the WHO AM I - Identity Crisis of youth today!
Mike Shelton intro song - ALL OF YOU! Back in the day! Thanks MIKE!
Blog couple of years - comments, article, idea - read change of our
youth today!
Maybe some that happen in our interaction with a youth somewhere in
our journey
Yes, this is Devon Harris - director/CEO of Full Circle Refuge -
Juvenile Justice Ministry that seeks to "See Jesus transforms the
lives of juvenile offenders and at-risk youth.....PERIOD! That has
been serving the SE US for almost 30 years now.

What is on tap for tonight's Podcast? It is July What does that mean? HOT! New Laws Fireworks, Ice cream = Happy!

Give me some feedback! podcast@fullcirclerefuge.org

NOW. GO SERVE YOUR KING JESUS! I'm OUT

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