Part of her had hoped he would say something like, "I want you, Katie. You belong to me now. I'll take care of you." He didn't say that. But his answer was the best one, really. "You belong to Christ, Katie.

The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.

When you know who you are, you know what to do.

We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ.