Personal Battle

This is a personal story.

I want this to matter. I want it to mean something to someone. I'm scared it wont.

There is so much bubbling up from inside, waiting to come to the surface and be given life.

Too often I fail to bring it to light. The fear can overwhelm.

"What does it matter?" "Someone else will do it" " Someone else will do it better" "Someone else has already done it"

These are lies I often believe. It is a false paradigm that resigns my individual uniqueness to commonality. It negates the fact that I have something to share -you have something to share... we have something to share.

We can share common experiences, common views, common interests and passions, but there is only one me, just as there is only one you. It is us separate yet together that make life unique.

I will not buy into the lie that the world is trying to sell me. I am not just a number, I am more than the clothes in my closet, the car I drive, the phone I use, the house I live in.

I am intangible. Who I am is not made up of what this world can offer. I am what I offer the world! Let me offer truth, honesty, love, grace, justice, beauty, peace, gentleness, kindness, patience, understanding and joy.

This is my statement... I will begin to make a difference. I will be me. I will create, because I was created. That is what I was designed to do. I will not give in to the lie that far too many of us buy, the one that I have bought for so much of my life - you are one of many.

Now is the time! Now is the time to live, to be free, to be me, to create what I was created to do.

Join me and stop buying the lie that you have to sit on the sideline. This is your story too. Help me create a world where everyone lives to be who they really are.