Good morning…
Waiting in a long line at the Denver airport, waiting, waiting, waiting to board our flight home, I was struck by the fact that no two people look alike. As we zig-zagged back and forth, back and forth, through the roped off security lines, I noticed people of different ages, different builds, different nationalities. People with long hair, no hair, and multi-colored hair. People with tattoos, with strollers, with loved ones. Short people. Tall people. Some thin and some round. No two people looked exactly alike.
It struck me, I could not tap one lady on the shoulder and tell her to look just like her neighbor. I could not ask a short man to try really hard to be tall. I could not tell an elderly person, “Be younger,” or a baby, “Grow up right now.” Every person in line was completely unique on the outside, without an ability to change their God given age, ethnicity, or skin color. The visual variety confirmed for me that we are all unique on the inside as well, without an ability to change our God given personality, our one of kind set of talents, and the LORD’s handpicked purpose for each of us.
This is the question zig-zagging between my heart and my mind as I waited, waited, waited in line: “Since I am the only me who will ever be, why not expand into my whole true self?”
Therefore we do not become discouraged [spiritless, disappointed, or afraid]. Though our outer self is [progressively] wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day by day,
2 Corinthians 4:16 (AMP),
Sue
