The Gift of Being Yourself

"The mystery of the Christian gospel is that our deepest, truest self is not what we think of as our own self but 'the self that is one with the Risen and Deathless Christ in whom all are fulfilled.' In Christian spiritual transformation, the self that embarks on the journey is not the self that arrives.  The self that begins the spiritual journey is the self of our own creation, the self we thought ourselves to be.  This is the self that dies on the journey.  The self that arrives is the self that was loved into existence by Divine Love.  This is the person you were destined from eternity to become - the I that is hidden in the 'I AM.'" - David Benner, The Gift of Being Yourself (2004)