Identity

Original solitude is Adam’s experience of standing alone before God — before Eve, before marriage, before any human relationship. It’s the moment where the first human being discovers who he is: not an animal, not an angel, but a person made in God’s image with a unique interior life. Before you can be “for” another person, you need to understand who you are alone before God — and that starts right now, in your single years. ...

If you’re reading this, I already know something about you. You’ve probably asked yourself this question more times than you’d like to admit–usually late at night, or right after a breakup, or scrolling through yet another dating app profile trying to figure out what you actually want. Who am I? Not the Instagram version. Not the version your parents hoped you’d become. Not the version you perform on a first date. The real you. ...