Identity theft

After Colossians 3:3

We died, it is written,

and yet we are here

in this world, here and real 

as we ever were before. 

It is written that we died,

and more: we died and 

we are now hidden and yet

we are still here and

still visible. How can both

be true? We died to whom 

we once were. We died 

to our old life. We died 

to this world. We died, and

we were reborn, reshaped,

redefined, remade, renewed.

We died, and now we live.

Hidden in him, we will be

revealed on that day. 

Our identity was taken,

obliterated, rose again.

Photograph by John Robert Marasigan via Unsplash. Used with permission.