I can remembering coming
home from a women’s gathering with some friends. I asked my husband, “What’s wrong with
me.” They love decorating, working in
flower gardens, throwing big social events at their homes. I hate all of these things.” He gently told me, “There’s absolutely
nothing wrong with You.’
As I look back at my life,
I realize I wasn’t always comfortable in my own skin. I went through times of thinking I needed to
be like someone else. I also went
through a season of wanting others to be like me. It took time and maturity before I was
comfortable with how God made me to be me.
I remember being at a
church event a couple of years ago and seeing the beautiful job a woman I knew
had done decorating for an event. Afterwards,
I went up to her and said, “You and I have very different gifts but I’m so glad
you can exercise yours the way you do. “
She said and “I’m glad you exercise yours the way you do.” This is what “allowing yourself and others”
to be different is all about.
