As Kierkegaard argues in The Sickness Unto Death, we can only be our true selves when we live transparently before God. In the language of this book, we must live aware of our belonging to God. At the center of living before God is living—the acceptance that life is fundamentally good and worth experiencing, even when it is painful. Life is a gift that we steward rightly when we understand it as a gift from God. This means that when we get out of bed each day, a choice to live in this world, it is a testament to our belonging to God. Choosing to live in an inhuman world bears witness to the
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