The Beauty of it All

Day 11.

Three hundred and fifty-five.

The number of days left in this leap year.

That’s plenty of enough time…

for you to be you.

When the world tries to make

you something you’re not

…simply say no.

Stand up for who you are.

Fight for what you believe.

Chase after the things you love.

Never pass up the chance to be YOU.

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Around a month ago the Lord began to tell me about the victories His people would be walking through in the New Year. Victory is here for those who have continuously walked through many trials in the previous years.  Victory is here for those who want it. He then went deeper to explain that the victory for me will come when I am my true self, when I walk in the person He has created me to be.

He began to tell me that a rose is victorious because it blooms into the magnificence He fashioned it to be. The beauty of a rose stands out because it simply does not try to take on the form of any other flower. I then see the image of Him relating that rose to me. My beauty stands out when I am myself. Trying to be someone I’m not takes away from His creativity; the thought He put behind perfecting me in my mother’s womb. When I know who I am, I begin to walk in His confidence. His confidence allows me to concur anything, becoming victorious.  

My resolution for the year: Be me.

Victory is here and I won’t let it pass by.

"To be yourself in a World that is constantly trying to make

you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Ralph Waldo Emerson