Closer To Me

So!…

I’ve been looking in the mirror as of recent like…

“God, who is this girl? Her hair, her clothes, her boldness, her ambition, her unapologetic self, that different kind of fire in her eyes…she looks nothing like ‘me’, God!”

But you know what???

She IS me!

Or at least the me that I’ve been praying to meet one day…

Had you told me years ago that I’d be looking in the mirror, staring at an unfamiliar, evolving version of myself, I would’ve said, “Okay, that’s nice…”

Never truly believing that God would make good on my “mediocre prayer” to be something special…but here I am…

Breaking out of this skin, out of this shell of myself that I’ve inhabited for a season too many…

Gradually laying to rest this idea that I could never be a “great”…

That I could never be a “bold”…

That I could never leave a legacy potent enough to be remembered…

Who is this girl who dares to dream?

Who is this young woman who defies the norms of society, who lives beyond the barriers of the generation?

Who is this daring and risk-taking social rebel, this misfit of the masses staring back at me?

Perhaps, whats most interesting about her, this her within the mirror, is that she is an ongoing evolution of someone who lays her head down on my pillow at night.

She is the orchestrated plan of her Creator for a unique and predestined time such as this.

She is emerging within the realm in which her shine was designed to glow at its brightest.

And her print is unlike any other that will ever exist in the record of this time.

And she KNOWS it!

She BELIEVES it!

And it DRIVES her to be exactly who and what she is…for a purpose greater than who and what she is…