You’re an  individual.. 

                                      You’re You..                                                                              

What makes you that you is  Your smile,      

                                            Your voice,                                                                              

                                                              the way you walk,      

the way you take everything calmly in your stride:   

                                   your interests,    

                       your love,                your personality 

                                and your features..                                                                            

         No one can take these things away from you. All these combined 

        as one forms a  unique and beautiful individual, You.                                    

       There is no one else in this entire universe that is exactly like you.            

      No matter how much they may look like you,                                               

                                                     talk like you   

                                      and have in common with you,                

      the bottom line is that they’ll never be you. You can’t be replaced..                          

Another thing is, you can’t be someone else.                                        

The same things apply, you can look like them                                                                 

and have everything in common with them, 

but one thing that will never be is that      

you will never be them..                                                                                                  

                           We all have a special something that we all treasure 

                   deep inside and no one can ever take that away from you,        

                 just like we can’t take it away from others. No one is exactly    

               the same;  we’re all different in  mind,   

                                                                body                       

                                                             and soul.                                                          

                                                   We’re all meant to be..                                                

Learn to love yourself. To do this you have to truly look inside yourself.                            

Find the center of the whole you and work on it. Build on it.                                          

Work on it’s potential. Once this is done, then you can look at yourself                          

in the mirror and honestly say  ” I can see myself”.                                                            

This is because when you have worked upon your inside,                                                 

what you see of yourself on the outside becomes what you on the inside.              

You’ll be able to see the whole you reflected back 100%..                                                

                                    This is what true beauty is:  

                           knowing who you are and accepting it.                                               

     Beauty,I believe comes from within and this is how it shines through..                  

~sS~

    Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night could be a single mother who worked nine hours that day and was rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.

    Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can’t make change correctly could be a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.

    Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job), could be a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.

    Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slowly through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.

    Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. Open our hearts not just to those who are close to us but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive and patience and empathetic and loving.

    Amen 

-Ss-