How do you determine and respond to the question “Who am I?” or perhaps, more accurately, “Who do I want to be?” or “Who do I want others to think I am?” Similarly, what standards do you use to judge others? Is your first instinct to perceive and allocate others as a member of some class or group—such as gender, race, physical characteristics, age, heritage, language, sexual preference, education, occupation, economic status, religion, or political party affiliation—and to judge them accordingly? Whose or what standards and values ultimately govern you in making these judgments? In whom or what do you find ultimate meaning? To whom or what do you give your allegiance? Through whose eyes do you “see” yourself and others? Through whose ears do you hear the “cries” of pain and despair of others? In considering these questions, what priority do you give in your mind, heart, will, soul, and actions to God, whose essence is unconditional love, truth, goodness, compassion, and mercy?