A friend of Eric Clapton’s asked him a good question:
“Chris’s first question to me, at our very first session, was, ‘Tell me who you are,’ a very simple question you would think, but I felt the blood rush up to my face and wanted to yell at her, ‘How dare you! Don’t you know who I am?’ Of course, I had no idea who I was, and I was ashamed to admit it.”
Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography (New York, 2007), page 257.
Who am I? I am a man in Christ. I am who I most truly am not by force of anything intrinsic to myself but by force of God’s mercy to me. God has breathed into me the breath of life, and I have thus become a living being, in both creation and redemption. I have no other reality. I need no other. I desire no other.
However I proudly depart from this reality, I am diminished. As I humbly rejoice in this reality, I am vibrant with life.
