SELF CARE SUNDAY

Do You Know How Amazing You Are?

Always trying to fit in can make you lose your way

Created in Canva by Nancy Blackman

Spirit, draw me to the things that are meant for me. Give me the courage to say no to the things that don’t show how amazing I am in the world.

It’s simple. For you to embrace how amazing you are, you gotta stop trying to be someone you are not. One day in my spiritual direction session I said, “I feel like I’ve spent my life trying to be an apple when I’m an orange.”

Every time I was trying to be the apple, a little bit of my amazingness was falling away, losing myself into an abyss of societal norms and shame.

So, Maya Angelou said it well. There’s no point in trying to be normal because then you lose out on the myriad of opportunities that show the world how amazing you are.

I’m always inspired and impressed by people who follow a path that society deems as … interesting, unexciting, or average. But, to that person, it is their passion and love, and God knew that when they were born. In fact, God created them to be passionate about that thing.

So, go be you!

Leave the apples to be apples and you be the orange you’re meant to be!