We forget we are made to stand out…

Today I received the most amazing compliment. Amazing because I didn’t expect it. Amazing because it showed me just how far I have come. Someone said, “Thank you…the world is a better place because of you.” Wow! These words have resounded in my head all day. Not because they boosted my ego or puffed up my pride. But, because they answered the cry of my heart. Our world is very black and white. We live by many unwritten rules that say, “do this and you’ll be accepted”, “do that and you won’t”. We get so wrapped up in trying to fit in, that we miss out on what we are created to do. We live the life we are told to live, instead of the life we are intended to live.

This compliment came after I did something that the world at large would not have approved of. I gave someone a Bible. Yup, you read that right…BIBLE. The person told me that he would keep the Bible because he was appreciative that I had taken the time to think about him (despite the fact that he really had no use for a Bible – his words). Then he gave me the compliment. That compliment said to me. In this black and white world…you are in COLOR.

Thankful that I can live my life in color.