The Most Difficult Thing To Be Is Yourself

What2Say2Day? If you remember I went to a conference on creating a safety net for youth who are in the LGBT community. One of the comments a panelist made is we can never be comfortable with the idea of people being LGBT until we become comfortable with the person we are. How true, right. I mean, if you've read any of my previous entries I've said this many times. You have to - have to - love yourself before you can fully love others. but this "self love" doesn't come easily. The most difficult thing in this world to love is ourselves because a lot of times we don't even know who that self is. We spend the first 11 or so years just being a kid with no real clue as to who we are or want to be. Then for the next, oh let's say, 20 years we try seeking that person out. we're influenced by everything from family and friends to magazines and music. Everyone wants us to be something or someone and in that bombardment of opinions we sort of forget we have a say in the whole matter. Who we are, who we have the potential of being, is up to us - period. The best way to discover this person, the only real advice we should be listening to is from our Creator. Our Creator has given us gifts (check out Isaiah 11:2-3 for a sometimes overlooked list of those gifts or 1 Cor 12 for a better known list). These gifts are then to be nurtured and developed to someday be used to help make this world a better place. We all have these gifts, each and everyone of us. You need to believe that. This is where it all starts - with you. No pressure!