circumstances will always come up short of giving us the satisfaction we are after. It might feel good for a while—and many can attest that it does feel good—but it will never last. The happiness that these identities offer is always fleeting and fading. Why? As Timothy Keller explains, “To have an identity is to have something sustained that is true of you in every setting. Otherwise there would be no ‘you.’ ”4 So the hunt for an identity is the hunt for something that is true of me in every circumstance
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