More beautiful than a flower? Yes, you are clothed with the righteousness of God and He has made you fearfully and wonderfully made. He has made you unique and promises to provide for you. Specifically your needs. God didn’t call you to be like everyone else. You were born to be your own unique version of you. Just like each flower is unique, each person God has created is unique. We each have our own special set of gifts and talents specifically hand picked by God. How cool is that!

The moment you embrace who He has called you to be God begins to do amazing things. You walk different. You talk different. You hold yourself to a higher standard when you know you are a child of the King. You are not just a carbon copy but uniquely made. God designed you to be one of a kind. Self acceptance is a powerful thing and once you realize who you are but also whose you are it is life changing.

Not everyone is going to like you, and that’s okay. That’s something that took me a long time to get used to but you can’t please everyone. And if you really ask yourself why should we walk around trying to make sure everyone else is happy and approving of everything we do? I lived that way for a long time and it isn’t fun! God also doesn’t want us to live in that kind of bondage. So, the real question we should be asking ourselves is not “do they like me?” but “do I like me?” Ultimately, that is the only thing that really matters. God approves of you and adores you. Why should it even matter what others think? Ignore what society and social media stays about who you “should be.” Embrace your uniqueness and the things that make you…well you! Nobody else could be a better you so just own it! Rock who God has called you to be.

I wrote a poem when I was 18 and a senior in high school that I feel really resonates with this and I wanted to share it as well. Hopefully, it will be a reminder to someone that your uniqueness and everything you are is everything that you need to be. Just be you ❤ I’ve found the more that I try to be something else or what someone wants me to be I become more depressed, insecure, and unsure of who I really am. This is a tactic from the enemy because he wants you to forget your uniqueness – your purpose. Every gift and talent God placed inside you is for a specific purpose, and if satan can get you thinking it isn’t good enough you could ultimately miss what God has called for you. God never called you to be someone else, that is why He made you the way you are. My poem talks about wanting what others have, trying to get it, but then realizing the real me was what I wanted to be all along.

Once I was a flower

But now I’m just a stem

I didn’t like my petals

So I did away with them

I thought my colors ugly

So I threw them all away

Wanted orange, red, and purple

Didn’t like my shades of grey

To look like other flowers was all I really wanted

Like all the other roses who were never teased and taunted

Like the child who’s picked last for elementary school athletics

I thought I was worthless and blamed it on genetics

I wanted to be chosen for a beautiful bouquet

But I knew no one would want me for my ugly color grey

So I tore my petals out and I threw them to the ground

With the wind they blew away and were never to be found.

Now I stand here naked with all my petals gone for good

And I wish that long ago I would have only understood

That looks can be deceiving and that grey is not so bad

Now I know that I possessed more that I thought I had.

Remember You are Fearfully Made ❤

xoxo Taylor Nicole