Category Archives: Identity

Identity 01

This is the written account of Adam’s family line.
When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.

When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters

Now if you will turn to Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness.”

In my family on the Darling side there are 17 Grand Children, I am the oldest and for quite some time the Grand Children have been having children.  My wife and I have one child.  I have heard it for a couple of decades, when a new child is born we look for big jowls [show mine] and when we see them we all get giddy with glee, that baby is one of us !!!!!  Don’t all of us do that ???  What would happen at the family introduction if your child had Teletubby’s like ears for the first time.  Everyone would be speaking softly, behind backs about that but what if for generations everyone had Teletubby like ears and protrusions from their heads and your new baby had them too.  There would be celebration about that, THE DARLINGS LIVE ON !!! IT WORKED YET AGAIN !!!…  EVEN PAGANS WOULD CELEBRATE THIS TO THE GODS OF FERTILITY !!! THANK THE GODS WE ARE LOOKED UPON WITH FAVOR BY THEM,

My wife nicknamed my daughter Ronda because she is in so many ways like her daddy… Ron.  Recently Ronda and I took a small trip together and after a few days sent mom a picture of us having a good time.  It was a picture of the kitchen cabinets in the place we were renting…  most of the doors left open.  We didn’t set that up, we just noticed it and all 3 of us just laughed and laughed.  That and countless other natural things drive momma NUTTS at home, sometimes Ronda and I like to emphasis things to relish in this imaging thing and of course make momma a little uncomfortable 🙂  But know for sure there is lots of Leisha in Ronda too.  Like momma’s naturally sweet nature.  I love that about my offspring.  I have become sweeter but the natural sweetness my daughter has comes from her mother.

This is Identity Language, Fathering Language, Parenting Language.  It’s all over the bible and the more you learn to see it the more you will see it.   We do have things in us that came from our “Spiritual Father”.  God is trying to communicate to man here and to you and me specifically, he is our father, we naturally get things from him just like our children getting things from us.  We are being invited into a certain perspective of a relationship with the Creator…  as a Father where we also have things already in us like our father.  Father is used all over the bible and that kind of perspective, that kind of thinking is a huge part of our rightful inheritance as a child and its hugely important to know that, work that out in our minds eye until we begin to approach the creator from the universe from that angle.  If you study religions and world views in the world God as a Father is fairly unique and it is absolutely part of the world view that comes to us from the long legacy of Christianity.

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Manufacturing Identity

I think a lot about Identity.  It seems the more I think about it the more I find a reason to think more about it.

I actually think the world thinks about Identity a lot more than “It” realizes and thus when we are of the world, which we are sometimes, we do then too.  So when we are of the world we think about it one way then when we are of the Spirit we think about it another way (Sounds like Paul doesn’t it ?)  The trick is to be in the Spirit more and more, to see from a heavenly view.  To get to the point in this Identity thing where certain types of experiences change you so deep…. The Identity of the Bible is just you.

Check out this Identity statement from a CNN article on tattoo’s: “In addition, as global mobility leads to the increasing pluralization of society, identity is also being seen as something to be designed rather than inherited.”     The article…

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A Powerful Identity Statement

I can’t shake these words, they are a game changer:

If your God is the punisher in the sky
If he is a distant God
If he is expecting you to perform to some great extent
If he is “fill in the blank” anything other than a good father wanting to have a relationship with you…

There is no other path than tearing down that idol, that image of a false God.

(I think Alan Smith said this)

What good is knowledge ?

I have been so aggressive pursuing knowledge of “Him” for the last two years. Really this is not bragging, I am just that way, I run hard at something that I decide to do. Old friends tell me this all the time….. we have a large church and I talk to people, I ask them things in various ways, things that tell me how they spend their time. I am just bizarre in how much I try to absorb…. After all of that effort the following is a little difficult to absorb and confusing in some ways.

I have acquired over 1000 books on the bible and Christianity in 2 years, and I have tried to read as many as I could…

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Something about our video

So a small part but yet a significant part of Leisha’s and my story was exposed this week. For sure it has been a surreal experience. We have had to re-live something that we are really way past and as a result questions have come to the forefront in my mind and here is one answer…

To do what I did to Leisha for so long, an underlying element was I didn’t see all of her. I didn’t see into her. I have seen this expressed several different ways in the psychological world. I was stuck in trying to see into me where I only saw a lot of pain that ended up in anger that expressed itself in how I treated her. Even though I really wasn’t angry AT HER, she bore the brunt of it.

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