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EVERYONE AROUND ME
By Kristen White

I ask my mom and dad for money they dont really have to buy clothes and shoes to impress everyone around me.

I spend an hour a day painting on my face and smoothing my hair to look just like everyone around me.

My Bible rests on my nightstand, no time to read or pray. But I have time to watch the shows and bop to the music of everyone around me.

I went to the mailbox today in the pile was a magazine with pictures of everything i want and another one from a ministry with pictures of children who have no shoes.

They wear tattered clothes and rejoice for a bowl of rice, but their smiles glowed with beauty unlike everyone around me.

It struck me;
I dont rejoice;
I want.
I am anxious, discontent, jealous, and insecure.

I let the Holy Spirit speak to me,
"Be like Me, Be like Me"
and suddenly I didnt want to be like everyone around me.
I want to be like Him.

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