Belonging

Belonging

“Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine” (Job 41:11, ESV).

His myositis was doing well, but he was pensive. 

“What are you thinking about?” I asked.

“My sister died, and I’ve got to deliver the eulogy. I’ve been a pastor, so they asked me to.”

“Have you decided what you are going to say?”

“I sure have,” he said. “The title is, ‘She Don’t Belong to You.’”

To whom do you belong? To whom do those you love belong?

Through much of my life I have walked with a sense of ownership.

I own my plans. I own my successes. I even own my defeats.

I own my family, my patients, my reputation.

I have imagined that all is under my control, and I have watched as the world laughs.

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