She knows who she is she just forgot for a little while

On our Seattle trip I started Don Miller's new book a million miles in a thousand years.  After Blue Like Jazz I was expecting some pretty awesome stuff. Unfortunately, for the most part the book has been a bit of a let down.  But, being Don Miller he still says some pretty awesome stuff.  There is one line that he says that for some reason I can't get out of my head.  He's talking about a friend's daughter who has been making poor choices and mixed up with a bad guy and then her father makes some family changes that completely turn around her attitude.  Once she has come back to the family and who she really is, Don Miller says, "she knows who she is, she just forgot for a little while." Sometimes I think this is so true, for all of us.  Even if we're not doing acid or pregnant with a drug dealers baby, I think we all forget who God made us to be sometimes.  That's been a big thing for me lately.  Realizing that I was made to be somebody beautiful in God's image and that I need to strive to be that person every day.  I think it relates to other people too.  When we see people we know who seemingly have gone off the deep end, I think we need to view them as an amazing person who's just forgetting who they are, not a lost cause.  I think so often we get scared and choose to reject those people from our lives, when in fact that's when they need us the most.  When people are floundering around, trying to figure out who they are, they need their friends the most to love them no matter what.  I'm not really sure if Don Miller meant everything from that statement that I got from it, but nonetheless, I found them to be some powerful words.