BEING TRUE TO YOURSELF

When I was a child I wanted to be a labor and delivery nurse. Specific for a 6 year old, right? I loved babies and I thought the best job ever would be to help bring them into the world. Around age 13, I decided I wanted to be a fashion designer. I had discovered my creative self and it totally changed my world. Since then I’ve always known I was a creative and I wanted to create.

Over the years it’s been fashion, music, poetry, jewelry, cooking, etc. I feel so alive creating things. As I got older, however, I allowed fear and the opinions and doubts of others to convince me that I needed to do something else; that I needed take another route to be successful. Sadly, I even adopted some of those opinions and doubts as my own. The thing is, they were never meant to occupy space in my heart. So I always felt the internal struggle of being the person that I knew I was versus the person I felt pressured to be.

Let me tell you, being someone you’re not is exhausting and miserable. Be true to yourself! Psalm 139:14 says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made! Believe it! There is only one you and you have a unique contribution that only you can make to the world. I’ve found life to be so much more fulfilling when I became true to myself.