Sista-Sistas

Krystal, Heather, Me, Taylor
Photo Credit: Werner Portrats

I just started a new journey in my life. Yesterday I started a Church Partnership Program(CPP) through a church in Olympia. This program allows me to take university classes at a blessed price while working towards my degree in ministry. I love the program, so far. The only down side is that it is held at the church my sister works and attends. Don't get me wrong I love the church and the people, but all day I was introduced as Heathers' sister, and now, that's what I am known as here.

This got me thinking, I will always be someone's sister. Unless I go to a new place where none of my family has gone, which in the small a town we live in is very unlikely. I even run into this problem dropping my brothers off at daycare, where my other sister works. I am known as Ms.Taylor's sister to all the kids.

The more I thought about it the more I started to wonder how else people saw me; Glenda's daughter, Lynn's daughter, Michael's big sister, Arv's grand daughter.... The list goes on. The ultimate question I thought about was do they see me as a daughter of the king?

1 John 3:1-2 says:
"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known." 

God has chosen us and called us all his children. Even though the world does not know Him do they see something different in my actions that shows I am different. Part of a different family? Do they see it in you?

Do I live in a way that people can see and say "Oh that,s Kolbey, God's daughter"?  As people will always see me as Heather's sister, will they always see me as God's daughter?