{"id":6921,"date":"2023-12-11T20:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenals.org\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2023-12-13T19:09:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:09:17","slug":"identity-in-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenals.org\/identity-in-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity in Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_2029311341\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  \" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"section-bg-overlay absolute fill\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row align-middle\"  id=\"row-728266881\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1686659289\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\" style=\"background-color:#546c9e;\" >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1727314557\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<h1 class=\"uppercase\"><strong>Identity in Creation<\/strong><\/h1>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1727314557 {\n  line-height: 0.75;\n  color: rgb(255,255,255);\n}\n#text-1727314557 > * {\n  color: rgb(255,255,255);\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-813287954\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<p><strong>The Rev. Dr. Dennis Di Mauro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NALS Regent<br \/>Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church (Warrenton, VA)<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-813287954 {\n  font-size: 0.8rem;\n  line-height: 0.75;\n  color: rgb(255,255,255);\n}\n#text-813287954 > * {\n  color: rgb(255,255,255);\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1686659289 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1155676307\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_515630411\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenals.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dennis-di-mauro.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"Dennis Di Mauro\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenals.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dennis-di-mauro.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thenals.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dennis-di-mauro-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thenals.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dennis-di-mauro-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thenals.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dennis-di-mauro-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_515630411 {\n  width: 71%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-41467981\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1944931223\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=drop-cap>C<\/span>an a ukulele create an identity? Lately I have become known as the \u201cukulele pastor.\u201d I play ukulele in Sunday worship, at nursing homes, and at our local senior center. I even post songs on Facebook Live in what I call \u201cukulele lunchbreaks.\u201d If you ask to become my friend, you can see me singing \u201cLet My Love Open the Door\u201d by Pete Townsend (one of my better ones)<sup>1<\/sup> and many other old hits. And so, when I go to our NALC convocations and pastors\u2019 conferences all anyone wants to talk to me about is the ukulele\u2014which I don\u2019t mind at all. I am quite happy that the ukulele has become my identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">But then I got to thinking, what happens if for some reason I lose the ability to play ukulele? What if one day I am unable to use my hands, or can no longer sing? By human standards, that would mean I have no talent which makes me special. Where then would I find my true identity?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Now this isn\u2019t just a problem for me. No, it\u2019s a serious problem today for many young people and even some of our older people as well. They look at themselves in secular terms and they don\u2019t see too much that is distinctive about themselves. Maybe they don\u2019t think they are that popular or especially good-looking. Maybe their grades aren\u2019t the best or they don\u2019t stand out on the playing field. And to make things worse, maybe their loved ones have shared some of these suspicions with them, and perhaps they\u2019ve been told that they just don\u2019t measure up. This realization can cause depression and anxiety in an individual, bringing him\/her to despair, or perhaps even drive that person to fill this identity void with politics, alcohol, or drugs. In some case, it may even cause someone to find his\/her identity in conforming to superficial gender stereotypes or to arrive at a sense that one\u2019s biological sex does not correlate\u00a0with his\/her gender experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">But what if identity wasn\u2019t tied up in some personal superlative that makes a person seem better than others? What if we have this backwards<span class=\"s1\">\u2015<\/span>what if our identity is instead a gift from God?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">To discover this truth, we must go all the way back to the first chapter of Genesis. Here we discover that our identity doesn\u2019t come from our talents, but from our creation in \u201cthe image of God\u201d (<i>imago Dei<\/i>). What is interesting is that the first five days of creation all begin with the phrase \u201cAnd (or then) God said.\u201d But on the sixth day, God pauses<span class=\"s1\">\u2015<\/span>some translations even note that we move into poetry as the text states, \u201cSo God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them\u201d (1:27). John Paul II notes that, \u201cin the cycle of the seven days of creation, a precise step-by step progression is evident; man, by contrast, is not created according to a natural succession, but the Creator seems to halt before calling [Adam] to existence, as if he entered back into himself to make a decision.\u201d<sup>2<\/sup> So the creation of the first man, and by extension all of us, was not a mistake\u2014it was pondered among the persons of the Trinity. It was an intentional choice to create humanity in God\u2019s likeness. And that makes us different from any of His other creations. The late pope notes that this verse adds \u201can affirmation of the absolute impossibility of reducing man to the \u2018world.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">But there\u2019s more! Because in the second creation narrative (2:7), God breathes into Adam\u2019s nostrils the breath\u00a0of life,\u00a0a beautiful portrayal of the love He has for each of us and the intimacy He desires in our relationships with Him. So perhaps we need to stop looking at ourselves or other people for our identities and instead we need to start looking up! Up to a loving, intimate God who created us with infinite worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Now things went awry with the apple incident, I admit. But it\u2019s important to understand that our sin does not remove the God-given identity and love He placed upon all of us. I mean, if our existence in the likeness of God doesn\u2019t provide a compelling identity for us, then I don\u2019t know what does!<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\" style=\"max-width:75%;height:2px;background-color:rgb(106, 104, 103);\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div id=\"text-3138551185\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<ol>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">If you don\u2019t have Facebook, you can check this one out on YouTube at www.thenals.org\/ukulele<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">John Paul II, <i>Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, <\/i>trans. by Michael Waldstein<i> <\/i>(Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2006), 135.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-3138551185 {\n  font-size: 0.85rem;\n  line-height: 1;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<style>\n#row-41467981 > .col > .col-inner {\n  padding: 15px 20px 10px 20px;\n  background-color: rgb(255,255,255);\n}\n<\/style>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"video video-fit mb\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"154669453 449427916256167 532233852566645221 n 1\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pbWVqJ1YuD8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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