This question from a teen got the author thinking. What does it really mean to be spiritual, and what practical effects can knowing our spiritual identity have in our lives? The answers might surprise you.
She felt as though all the love in her life came from one person: her boyfriend. So when he broke up with her, she thought she’d lost something she could never get back. A pivotal conversation in Sunday School changed her mind—and her experience.
This teen couldn’t understand why a guy on social media had rejected his friend request. When it came to light that skin color might be the issue, he turned to prayer to understand more deeply that, in his words, “It isn’t being of the same race or culture that makes us feel ‘in.’ It’s God. It’s knowing that we are living in God’s kingdom as God’s offspring.”
One night my family was roasting marshmallows, and I put my stick with the marshmallow on the end into the fire, because I wanted my marshmallow to burn.