You Be You

"Correction is for mistakes, though, and personality is not a mistake."

I DON’T have to have a vision. But I will follow a vision. I’ve never been one to make plans. That’s not how I am. I don’t set goals past getting a daily chore done. I just don’t think that way. I learned this writing – to be who I am and to think how I think. My family understands this, my husband and daughter the most. No one here tries to change each other. It’s a battle we don’t have. It’s pointless anyway. None of us will be any different because of it, and letting each other be who we are avoids arguments.

The church says a lot about how to think, many things from people with their way of thinking that just isn't mine. By example, often, what I hear in a sermon isn't what my mother hears at all. Yet I don't get offended and launch into a lecture. She isn’t wrong, and neither am I. I've learned never to apologize for being myself. And I'm not pressured to alter HOW I think, just WHAT I think when it's not godly. That's all that matters.

Through our time together, I’ve learned that Jesus isn't like the Father and yet He is. Abba is far softer and yet louder, the first being His need to speak and the second what happens when He does. They have the same laugh. But sorry, Jees. He's got you beat in the weight of His words. Well, so far.

My point is, too many speakers try to force their personality on you and make you react like them. But I write like me, and each of my friends like themselves. No writer I know tries to force others to copy them. Correcting grammar is one thing. Correction is for mistakes, though, and personality is not a mistake. It is a point of strife, however, that the devil uses too often as criticism and condemnation. I shrug it off. I ain't changin'. But others react. They get angry or depressed and frustrated.

“For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.” (James 3:16, BBE)

If what you're saying causes others negative emotions, then you need to self-examine and change your words. You can't make Willie Nelson sing like Frank Sinatra. A dachshund ain’t a poodle. And God making mankind all different wasn’t a mistake. They were all the same, then they weren’t, and He planned it that way. History is rich with differences in thought that scholars continually try to understand.

Let’s bury the hatchet and be the same way, finding in how she is, how he is, something worth treasuring, worth valuing, instead of pressing each other into the same mold.

“So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” (Genesis 11:8-9)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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