A Word from St. Francis

I recently read this powerful statement from St. Francis of Assisi:

“What I am before God, that I am.”

How often we think of ourselves in terms of what others’ opinions are. The truth of our identity, however, is not in what any person thinks of us, whether parent, sibling, lover, friend, enemy, or stranger.

The truth of who we are is found in the eyes of our Abba Father.