Speaker and author Ruth Haley Barton, a spokesperson capturing something of the nature of the Christian individual - their makeup and their longings - offers this, “Your desire for more of God than you have right now, you’re longing for love, your need for deeper levels of spiritual transformation then you have experienced so far, is the truest thing about you.”* Isn’t it interesting how quickly we can point to features about ourselves and assume they are the things that most accurately define who we are?