June 9: THE WORLD DOESN'T NEED A COPY OF SOMEONE ELSE, IT NEEDS YOU.

Affirmation: I look in the mirror and love who I see and so does God.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son that whoever believes in Him shall not die, but will have eternal life.John 3:16
“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation.””‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭12‬:‭2‬ ‭NIV‬‬https://bible.com/bible/111/isa.12.2.NIV
First by Lauren Daigle 
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Reading for Today
Walk in Grace. Live in Love. by Bob Goff

                    June 9


THE WORLD DOESN'T NEED A COPY OF SOMEONE ELSE, IT NEEDS YOU. 

You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 
PSALM 139:13 

When I was little, I had a friend with a pet parrot. I used to love going over to his house after school. I had seen a lot of birds by then, but this was the only one I had seen that could talk. My friend taught his parrot some words he probably shouldn't have, and I remember standing there with my mouth open when the parrot gave me an earful. 


My fascination with the parrot got me thinking about what it would say if it didn't just have to repeat what other people said. Think about it. If a parrot is smart enough to mimic the sounds of English, maybe it's smart enough to express some original ideas. I'd love to get inside a parrot's head. 


We'll never know what life looks like from the parrot's perspective, but my curiosity about the parrot's ideas made me curious about what other people think. Each person has a unique perspective they bring to the world. They have different characteristics that show us some small part of who God is, and they open our eyes to new ways of seeing when they let us in on their experience.

 
A lot of us end up acting like parrots, though-just repeating things we hear from other people. We miss the opportunity to tell people about our unique perspective because we're too concerned with sounding like everyone else. The world doesn't need another copy of someone else; the world needs you. 


In what ways can you be more authentically yourself today?

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