365 Project - Day 174

I went to the fabric store to look for remnants and this fabric (not a remnant!) spoke to me. This is now a favorite photograph. I found these words I had used when I was in youth ministry and felt them today ...

"I Am Me"

"In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me - Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it - I own everything about me; my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself - I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears - I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes - because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me - by so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts - I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know - but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me - however I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me - if later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded - I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do - I have tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me - I own me, and therefore I can engineer me - I am me and I AM OKAY!"

Virginia Satir

Praise God! And Best Wishes!

Today's Photo: My Way

"The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.' " Jeremiah 1:4-5








EXIF: Nikon D7100
ISO 160
50mm
f5.6
1/2s