Who Am I?

Rough nite last nite. Really started to question my purpose. What am I doing here? Not having a job feels like it has stripped me of my identity. I could preach all day long on why it is harmful to find your identity in work or much else but Jesus Christ, and yet now that I have become unemployed I realize that my identity was still very strongly tied to my work.
In addition, I have only heard back from one of the plethora of employers I sent resumes out to. I know that I could go get a job at a thousand different places here in Omaha and make each place better. It makes me realize a small part of what it must feel like to be a minority and know that you could do a job and yet be overlooked because of race or education or experience or whatever. IT SUCKS! It makes me realize how uncompassionate I am when I mutter under my breath "Why don't you go get a job" when I see a homeless person.
Anyway I think what God really wants me to focus on is being a loving person, to my kids, to my wife, to everyone God brings across my path. I think that is what he desires from me more than creating a new church or whatever "great, important" thing I might try to do for him. That's just so much less tangible though.

On the Pinto I cut the bracket down today and am in the middle of repainting it and the water pump pulley. I'll post a picture once I get the v-belt system set back together.

God help me to be gracious, loving, and compassionate towards the people you put around me. Help me to find my identity in living out the kind of love that you modeled to us through Jesus. Please give me focus in regard to what job would best suit what we are trying to do here. I love you Lord and ask for your blessing on all those back in Central City.