Different by Design
Created with Purpose.
A rabbit pauses during a morning walk, content to be exactly what it was created to be. Photo by Bonnie S. Heisse.
This morning, during my ten minutes of sunshine, I saw a deer, several rabbits, and more birds than I could count.
They couldn’t have been more different.
One moved carefully through the grass.
Another darted from place to place.
The birds took to the sky.
None of them seemed concerned about being the others.
As I watched them, I thought about my twin sister, Connie.
We share the same birthday.
We grew up in the same home.
We have many of the same memories.
Yet we are very different people.
She’s more outgoing than I am.
She’s a people person; I’m more task-oriented.
She comes alive at night, while I’m up with the sunrise.
Over the years, I’ve come to appreciate those differences.
The older I get, the more I realize God doesn’t create us all the same.
He creates each of us with different gifts, strengths, and purposes.
The deer wasn’t meant to be a rabbit.
The rabbit wasn’t meant to fly.
The birds weren’t meant to move through the woods like deer.
Each was exactly what it was meant to be.
The same is true for us.
It’s easy to look at someone else’s life and wonder why ours doesn’t look the same.
But God never asked us to be someone else.
He created each of us differently for a reason.
Maybe the goal isn’t to become someone else.
Maybe the goal is to become who God created us to be.
Sometimes we spend so much time wishing we had someone else’s gifts that we overlook the ones God has already given us.
The deer, rabbits, and birds seemed to understand that this morning.
Perhaps there’s a lesson in that for us, too.
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