Celebrate Your Personal Uniqueness!

By Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr.

People exist in different sizes, shapes, and colors. Their voices may be individually identifiable; their laughter is fully their own. Their talents are varied, and their personalities are quite unique.

Because of all that, every person is most hard, if not impossible, to copy. Like snow flakes, people are saturated with individuality.

Furthermore, every person is important in the world. That’s why war is so deplorable, even when necessary, and murder is a most heinous crime. That’s also the reason why many battles for human rights must be fought and won, through solid guidelines.

Holy Scripture tells that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made,” and that speaks not only of our physical frames and their functioning, but of every single, intricate aspect of our humanity also, which makes “me” me, and “you” you! Someone suggested that after God made you, He threw away the mould, never to use it again!    Indeed, no one else is like you!

Therefore, every time you look in the mirror, be grateful for what you see. And I don’t mean the mirror itself, nor its frame, but your own self. Always remember that you are special, no matter what others may think or say!

Recognize the good in other selves, by paying value to them, by affirming them. As a contemporary author and preacher asserted, “God has no wastebaskets. But for every person and for everything there is a purpose.” If you look for good things in other people, you will surely find them.

With all this in mind, each day rejoice at your own self; recognize that you are special; never lose sight of the fact that you and all fellow humans are beautiful creations of Almighty God. As the late Reuel Howe encouraged: “Choose to say ‘I am who I am and look forward to the I am that I am becoming’.”