be yourself.

you are the best YOU the world's ever going to see. be yourself...the beautiful, wonderful creature God has created. for so long, i didn't get it...because of culture (sadly, mostly church culture), i tried to be like other people. after some struggle, i realized God would never help me be anyone but me. a peaceful, more simple life is to just live as one's self. we don't have to compare or compete...and that is freedom. Jesus is our standard.

"but let every person carefully scrutinize and examine and test his own conduct and his own work. he can then have the personal satisfaction and joy of doing something commendable [in itself alone] without [resorting to] boastful comparison with his neighbor." -galatians 6:4

Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best: "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."