Just a thought by coppi

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

We are like snowflakes.  “Snowflakes can symbolize joy, delicacy, clarity, and transformation. But their most important symbolic meaning is that of uniqueness because every snowflake is different.”

It’s very hard to be me, because, speaking for myself, I am/was a people pleaser.  I desire to be liked/loved.  But true happiness is, I found, is being me – different, yes, but being comfortable in my own skin is what makes me happy.  Being me, the one God fearfully and wonderful made (Ps 139) took a lot of years to become.  The world is full of people – different opinions, different cultures, different physically, different-different.  I don’t want to twist you in my image and I don’t want to you to twist me in your image.  Love looks beyond differences-love looks at “you”, a very special snowflake who is in a world of many differences.  Be you….love you.  You are wonderfully and fearfully made.