Becoming Ourselves

And then one day you wake up and everything is ok. You realize that you are dealing with whatever it is you are dealing with. Living the life that you are living. And you accept it for what it is.

I watch people come into Union Mission all of the time and they are in denial about these things. They struggle with who they are and do not accept the things that make their lives what they really are. They sleep walk through their days and it is not really life that they are living but something else.

Then one day they wake up and see things as they really are. They accept who they have become and are clear headed for the first time. Then they decide who they want to be and begin making good choices that helps them become that person. They become whole and holy.

When I wrote TOUR OF HOMES, I told the story of Jossuff X, a homeless man running from the premature death of his mother, racism in the South, and the stigma of not being accepted by his race because of the light color of his skin. Then one day, he wakes up and realizes that everything is ok. He is not who is wants to be. He wants to become himself, Anthony Tyrone Collins. And then he begins doing the things necessary to be that person.

This is something that each and everyone of us go through in our lives. Some of us are at the beginning of the process, others in the middle, and a few of us are done. But all of us are in the middle of becoming the person who we really want to be.