Pastor's Life - Be Ourselves

Let's be ourselves by Rev. Jeniffer Rodríguez New Year. New ways of living. New opportunities to grow. New eyes to see what is happening among us and around us. These are some of the things we usually say as part of our new year resolutions without forgetting to have healthy habits of eating, work out more or find more time to be more in connection with God and us. We tend to say a lot of things. We tend to do few of the things we set as our goals. We have forgotten something really important: “Being authentic with ourselves.” We have forgotten that as a way of doing everything we have planned or desired to do, we need to love ourselves and be who we are, no matter the circumstances. There are times we say it is hard to be me because of the work we do or because of the positions we need to fill. If we go back to the center of our roots; those being Jesus, our rock and model to follow, we then realize that he was himself. Jesus was authentic. Jesus was real and that’s what people miss seeing and interacting with. Also, what about us? We need to be comfortable with ourselves. Let’s not be something we are not happy to be or to do.

Rev. Jeniffer Rodríguez is the pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Ossining, NY. Jeniffer and her husband, Kyle Craig, are the parents of a beautiful 3-year-old girl Emma Sophia and a handsome 1-year-old boy Eric Gabriel. Originally from the Dominican Republic, she pursued her Master of Divinity at McCormick Theological Seminary. Rev. Rodríguez likes to do creative things with art, both for worship and personally. She is a chaplain of the New York City-based Ecumenical Choir Cántico Nuevo (New Song) and is involved in social justice issues.

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