{"id":51,"date":"2014-06-27T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myheart4home.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2014-11-28T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T23:36:48","slug":"moving-beyond-what-to-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/moving-beyond-what-to-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving beyond what to who\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Have you realized how easy it is to try to identify who you are by what you do?<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">We introduce ourselves as someone\u2019s wife, mother, daughter, sister or by our profession,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">business, or &#8216;\u201dbrand.\u201d In our culture, it feels like we have to \u201cmarket\u201d ourselves<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">in order for others to understand our value and our worth.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">It is frightening to let people know who we really are. If they really know us,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">they know where we are vulnerable and we risk being hurt. For years, I have hidden<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">behind the \u201cwhat\u201d I am because I was afraid and not willing to risk exposing<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">my hopes, dreams, and desires to the criticism of others.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moving-Beyond-What.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"814\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/moving-beyond-what-to-who\/moving-beyond-what\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moving-Beyond-What.jpg?fit=3318%2C2212&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3318,2212\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1403337553&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;22&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Moving Beyond What\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moving-Beyond-What.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moving-Beyond-What.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-814\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moving-Beyond-What-300x200.jpg?resize=385%2C256&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Moving Beyond What\" width=\"385\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moving-Beyond-What.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moving-Beyond-What.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moving-Beyond-What.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moving-Beyond-What.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moving-Beyond-What.jpg?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Through this past season of change and upheaval in our lives, it would have been easy<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">to withdraw and hide. But God has used this time to help me discover who I am.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I am a woman who is strong in the Lord and who desires to be obedient to the call of God<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0on my life, a woman who is willing to risk being known so that other\u2019s lives may be enriched.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">The Lord has been working in me to become more transparent. Being guided by Him,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I have chosen to share my heart and calling with a handful of people. I have experienced<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">support, encouragement, and confirmation for what I feel called to do and that it is needed<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0for this time. Friends have stepped up beside me and<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">offered to support me in my calling.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWho&#8217;\u201d am I can only be known if I am willing to let it be known.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWhat\u201d I am or what I can do are the tools that God has blessed me with to fulfill<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0his calling to speak into the lives of others.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">It has taken me fifty-something years to embrace that my identity is not about<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">what I can do, who I know, or what I may have.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">My circumstances, past or present, do not limit my expectations or indicate my potential.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">My identity is all about my relationship with the Lord. In Him,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I am loved, cherished, complete, and called.I have enjoyed the study of the book of Ruth at <a href=\"http:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">s<\/span>he reads truth<\/a>. The testimony of Naomi being restored to joy after such great personal loss was so encouraging. When she chose to<br \/>\ncall herself &#8220;Mara&#8221; or bitter, God still saw her as His beloved daughter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I am so thankful that as I learn to enjoy and rest in who I am in Him,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">He gives me the resources to be obedient in sharing my heart for home.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b><i>Pam<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you realized how easy it is to try to identify who you are by what you do? We introduce ourselves as someone&rsquo;s wife, mother, daughter, sister or by our profession, business, or &lsquo;&rdquo;brand.&rdquo; In our culture, it feels like we have to &ldquo;market&rdquo; ourselves in order for others to understand our value and our<a class=\"autoreadmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/moving-beyond-what-to-who\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-closetomyheart","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Moving beyond what to who\u2026 - My Heart 4 Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/moving-beyond-what-to-who\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Moving beyond what to who\u2026 - My Heart 4 Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Have you realized how easy it is to try to identify who you are by what you do? 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