Article July 6, 1992 Issue

Worth "duodecillions"

We each are cherished by our creator, are indispensable to Him, and we can begin now to find this out.

Joan Sieber Ware

A THIRD-GRADE class was asked to fill in the blank: "If I could be anyone in the whole world, I would want to be." The students wrote in famous athletes, movie stars, or rock musicians. Only one child wrote "me."

Many people, young and old, are dissatisfied with who they are and suffer from feelings of low self-esteem. Some go through their entire lives feeling as if they just don't matter, that they are of little use or value to anyone, that they are a nobody.

Yet the Psalmist said of God's creation of man, "Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour." And the book of First John assures us, "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God."

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