I took this picture in Orlando a few years back and it recently popped up on a screen saver to remind me why I took this in the first place. It's my humble opinion that the world presents us with a story line that we begin to fall for, even believe, when we think we all have to be the same. Our "sameness" lowers the expectation that we might have for life, making things a bit blander in our life. There is a dumbing down that occurs when we all jump on the bandwagon in order to be like one another.
The grand deception is that we believe this line of thought. Somehow, we do what others do. Our social media outlets which we all use share ideas at light-speed which we take for our own and follow because someone else follows them as well. We live in a culture that lifts up "average" as normative.
I think we are deceived! What part of the Divine creativity is not working when we are all copies of each other? Instead, would it not be more in keeping with the King's creativity if we would embrace the diversity a bit more in our lives? Can we somehow give ourselves the permission to be the power-packed different from society type? Are we ever listening to God closely enough to hear a part of the divine plan in our lives, that we are created exactly the way we are created to be exactly who we are.
Avoid the grand deception! Use this day as the day you celebrate your awesome uniquely you reality! Rest in the power of God's love in your life, and spend more time seeking how to be true to who you are and less time trying to fit in the blur of others. You might surprise yourself!
"But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all day long, though I know not its measure" Psalm 71:14-15 NIV
I clicked on the picture out of idle curiosity, only to find that GOD had his hand on my shoulder, guiding me to a message I needed to hear today.
Posted by: ADELAIDE | 05/12/2010 at 12:31 PM