Do You Remember Who You Are?

Do you remember who you are?

I mean, the real you – deep down inside. The you created in God’s image and likeness. The you who is God’s masterpiece. The uniquely gifted you. The one and only you, free from all the comparisons and advertising and marketing and demands and peer pressure and…

Do you remember who you are?

The essence of you. The you that only you can be. The you that God saw necessary to create for himself and the world.

“Mimicking the methods and movements of other people is one big smasher of your rare intellect and animation… an affront to the on-purpose of your design.” —Erika Morrison

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather. —Frederick Buechner

Perhaps it’s time to stop mimicking the methods and movements of other people.

Maybe we need to take off all the coats and hats of comparison and advertising and marketing and demands and peer pressure so we can remember who we really are.

I know I do. It becomes so heavy and suffocating under all these coats and hats.

I long to see my original, shimmering self.

I want to remember who I am.

Do you remember who you are?