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Project Speak Life: On Being Different

Have you ever felt like you have two heads? Two left feet? One good ear? One hand that doesn't feed the other? A bird in the hand? lol... Okay, I'm sorry... My humor gets me into trouble. But, seriously, do you just feel like you stick out like a sore thumb at times? Sometimes? Most times?

You must understand... that we are all here as created beings with a purpose! Purpose! Purpose! That word could be considered highly overused! But it isn't! It's packed with everything you need to understand that your physical, mental, and spiritual makeup is exactly as it should be. It isn't until we begin to question and doubt the bare essence of who it is that is staring back at us in the mirror, that we become confused. We begin to configure secret meeting rooms in our minds to house those imposing questions such as: "Who am I?" , "Why am I so different from everyone else?", Why does everyone misunderstand me?". They are all legitimate questions; however, they can be targets for those who want to "hit and run". By that, I mean that asking the question is not enough. It is a "hit"! If you don't stand still and allow the answers to come to you (even in the midst of your search), you will be prone to running and, very likely, hiding or even creating some alternate reality.

Being different doesn't have to result in rebellion or indifference. Being different may just be what it is! It might be YOU embracing the skin you are in (so to speak) and loving who it is that God created you to be, stripping away the pain, blame, hurt, perversions, super-imposed virtual realities of others or caused by others. Sounds simplistic or over-simplified by the Writer? Yeah, maybe a little. But there comes a time when we must look at ourselves and say, "This is not as hard as I have allowed it to become." That is the beginning of taking control of life and self-managing our emotions, finances, friendships! ETC!

Until you can see yourself synonymous with LOVE, LIGHT, PURPOSE, JOY, PEACE, HUMOR, INTELLIGENCE, and CREATIVITY, you are no more than the amoeba many try to get you to believe you came from. Purpose is beyond your being here now. Your purpose was designed before your parents even knew you were coming into this world:

Psalm 139: 13-19 The Message Bible says:

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
    you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
    Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
    I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
    you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
    how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
    all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
    before I’d even lived one day.

Take comfort in knowing that your design, your quirks included, were all well thought through before you breathed your first breath. You are simply AMAZING! Now just live your life that way! BE who you are designed to BE on PURPOSE!

Dorothea A. Davis
~PSL


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