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Ricky Rap: We are not what we do

Rick Mills reminds us of Dutch priest and professor Henri Nouwen's five lies of identity this week
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Henri Nouwen taught at Yale Divinity School and Harvard Divinity School, but went on to live in community with people with mental and physical disabilities at the L'Arche Daybreak community in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Ricky Rap is a list of 10 thoughts and offerings from Niagara’s own Rick Mills. Retired from more than 30 years of management in the steel industry, he continues pastoral ministry here in town. Ricky Rap, he says, is intended to help us to believe in and laugh at ourselves.

 1. Five Lies of Identity… 

 2. I am what I have. 

 3. I am what I do. 

 4. I am what other people say or think of me. 

 5. I am nothing more than my worst moment. 

 6. I am nothing less than my best moment.* 

 7. Read that again. 

 8. And, again. 

 9. Don't “should” on yourself. 

 10. Or others. 

 

 *Henri Nouwen