Monday, August 14, 2006
Being The Best You
As we go through our lives a lot of us aspire to be like other people. We see people like Oprah, Bill Cosby, even neighbors and friends say "oh man I wanna be like them". We say these things in passing never really knowing what that persons life is really like. We don't know what Oprah's life is like outside of what she allows us to see on television. We have no idea what our neighbors really live like once they walk in the house and close out the world. Instead of looking at other people and saying "oh I wish I had that" or "I wish I lived like that" focus on being yourself and try to be the best at it. God only made one of you and He took the time to make you special. If He wanted to make us all alike I'm sure he could have. The only thing you can really be the best at that no one else can, is being you. Focus your time and effort on figuring out what your emotional issues are; what's holding you back from having a great marriage or why can't you keep a job. Really focus in on yourself and not what other people have done. Once we can be honest and introspective with ourselves we can all start to grow within. That growth is completely necessary to see and understand the big picture for your life.
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You are so right!!! Many people want to be like someone else and they have no clue of the stuff that person had to go through in order for that person to be the person they are now. A lot of people see the Glory/Benefits but don't know the story behind that glory. We are all beautifully and wonderfully made. Everything He created is good. Most people don't want to take an inventory of their lives because they don't want to deal with the "real person" inside of them. It's easier to covet or desire what another person has, than to discipline yourself and go through your own process and grow.
Ha!!!! Great point.I thank God I just have enough with being ''ME''
that's a full time job!!!! One of my favorite songs/sayings is You don't know my story...and I don't know yours either, so thats why I really don't want to be anybody else except for who God made me to be.I know he made us all special and although we may have traits like others ,he still made each of us very Unique,I'm glad to just be Little old me...... :)
Something I remeber from one of my pastor sermons was "you don't know what someone else's 40 day were like". He was referencing the 40 days that Noah had to spend in the arc with that rain just coming down and never knowing when it was going to stop. I know that statement made a change in me because although I may not understand why some people are the way they are I know that I don't know what there 40 days were like!
This is so right. I have found myself doing this very thing, wanting the things that others have and not being happy with the things i have been blessed with. I sometimes get down about where i am right now in my life, because i'm not quite where i want to be or 5 yrs ago thought i'd be.I have within the last few months become content with where i am right now knowing that this is all a part of God's plan for me to get where i want and need to be.
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