Can We ALL Stand Out?

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We believe that people cannot all be special, because we do not understand God's purpose for creating humanity. Our society has born the effects of industrialization, which breeds the mentality that everyone is a carbon copy. We think of unique people as those who stand out among the crowd. What if, instead, people were more like individual colors of a rainbow, each playing a vital part in the whole?

The carbon copy myth only stands because we see ourselves as a bunch of individual parts. In truth, however, humanity is a unit, created to work with one another. Each of us carries a different and relevant part of God's personality! It's like a body. Each cell has a unique function, and your body needs all cells to function the way they were created to. Imagine if you said of your blood cells, "Oh, I could stand to loose some, or to have some function differently. There are, after all, so many of them!" Ummm, these are the things that fatal diseases like sickle cell anemia are made of. No way! All blood cells need to function well. There are a lot of them, because a lot of them are needed!

In the same way, people need to be who they are to make the world function like it's supposed to! Crazy awesome, huh? Maybe you were called to lead a nation, to make great movies, to nurture children, or to play in an huge orchestra. Maybe many people see your face, or maybe few do. It doesn't matter,  and none is more important than the other! We need the love you carry, your expertise, life experience, and uniqueness. Like the brain that receives oxygen from each blood cell, people will not fully become who they were made to be without you being your genuine self.

So, no longer buy into the lie that only stand-out people are unique. Being unique isn't about being the blue pencil in a sea of black pencils. It's about being one of the many puzzle pieces, each one with a significant part in creating the big picture!