Five Minute Friday: Identity

 It's Five Minute Friday with The Gypsy Mama again.  We write for five solid minutes without stopping or going back to edit.  We take a risk - writing what comes first and leaving it on the page for all to see.  Today's word is: identity.

Go.

I remember quoting the Apostles' Creed every Sunday at Covenant Fellowship Church back in college.  That pretty much says it when we're talking identity.  It's all right there in one little package, and I loved the...rote memory, beauty, deep affection, truth, and intensity of the words repeated week after week that to some might sound...weak, weird, awkward, just plain repetitive.  So many churches have gotten away from things like that because they don't want to be 'old fashioned.'  I loved the weekly reminder of who I am in Christ.

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
    the Maker of heaven and earth,
    and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
    born of the virgin Mary,
    suffered under Pontius Pilate,
    was crucified, dead, and buried;
He descended into hell.
The third day He arose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven,
    and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
    from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost;
    the holy catholic church;
    the communion of saints;
    the forgiveness of sins;
    the resurrection of the body;
    and the life everlasting.
Amen.

I'm a wife, a mother, a friend, a daughter, a Midwestern small town girl, but at the end of the day, underneath it all...this is the most important thing about me, and whatever happens it will never change.

Stop.