🌜Moon Child🌛

We live in a world that has so many people striving to look normal to a bunch of people that are abnormal, in order to be accepted. What is normal is realizing that being accepted comes at a price that robs the world of the uniqueness that God has created you to be every time you minimize your personality to make someone like you.

― Shannon L. Alder

Each one of us is unique. No one laughs and cries the way you do, and no one walks, talks, and works the way you do. We are all eminently qualified — to do the work just we can do in this world and to live the life only we can live in this world. Samuel Silver said, “Your thumb is a reminder that you are not just one more animated toy stamped out by a factory, but an individual, capable of doing and saying things differently from anyone else, capable of making a unique contribution, large or small, in your world, your home.” 

The essence of spiritual life is to just be. When we are what we are meant to be, we reveal what we are by what we stand for and what we stand against. When our horizons widen, we see our personal difficulties, desires, cravings, and efforts in scale: small and transitory spiritual facts, within a vast abiding spiritual world and lit by a steady spiritual light. 

Our uniqueness makes us aware of our goals and enables us to pursue them single-minded. Our journey in life is not meant to be left to chance, else, we would never get to our destination. There is a difference between the archer who aims deliberately and hits the target and one who keeps shooting arrows without direction. 

Do not bury your uniqueness to become one unidentifiable mass, losing your individuality and uniqueness. Paradoxically, real unity is not built on a lack of individuality and uniqueness. Real unity grows when we can celebrate our differences and pursue and build on our own God-given uniqueness and gifts.