We will encounter suffering in our lives if we believe our "identity" of who we are is what we do, who or what we possess, our images we project, or the status we seek in the eyes of others. We become invested in this false identity, this false self, and our ego seeks to protect it. Therefore, we may erroneously believe that once we lose a job, a valued possession, or fail to live up to the images or expectations of others, we have lost a part of ourselves, our self-created identity, our "who we are" in our own eyes. We fail to recognize that we are not our possessions, our positions, our occupations, our titles, nor our created images. We become entrapped in our ego that causes us to look at our lives as what was, or what could or should have been, instead of what is. Reality is found in the present moment. God is in the now. We are an embodiment of God within us, who is the core of our being, seen and beloved by God as we truly are. What more could we desire to be?