Don't You Dare Ever Let Go!

I was just thinking about how everyone has their own unique personality--we are all so different!  I was saying to my parents how incredibly silly I must seem sometimes to the passing bystander.  Just last Sunday I was talking guns, competitively playing football with the cousins and logging all my stats--4 touchdowns/one touchdown pass/one interception, etc. so not girly right? and you can't even imagine all the crazy horse related stuff I've done--my poor neighbors--what entertaining sights they get!!!  Point is we are all different for a reason.  God made us that way.  Don't you remember what it says about snowflakes?  That no two are the same.  I believe this is true for people too.  We may have lots of similarities, but we each hold something very special and wonderful that no one else can ever hope to hold.  What do you hold?  I can't answer that question......I can only try to reassure you that God doesn't make mistakes and if you've never truly asked Him--how are you suppose to know what powers you can hold?

When I first bought my horse, Missy, I wasn't looking for a horse like her. It was certainly not "love at first sight!"   Her bratty attitude and built up hate for me seemed to shout out to me that this was not a good idea, but the back of my mind kept saying "Hold on!"  She tried kicking if you touched her belly and her legs were scratched up with fungus which meant lots of baths and scrapping scabs.  On top of that she was a bit head and alot ear shy.  I pretty much made up in my mind that this horse was hopeless!  How could I train something that hated me?  Every time I lounged her she would turn her bottom to me and kick out (very bad) at me and I remember my horse neighbor driving by exclaiming what a hand full I had gotten.  I struggled with what this horse had to offer, but something inside me said, "Hold on!"  Little by little she gave me glimmers of hope that maybe she did hold some sort of talent.  She still laid her ears back at me when I came to get her in the pasture....but she showed ever so slightly that she did love me...she started to enjoy her training and instead of hate she was starting to love me. I'm not even sure when the "Hold on" voice changed to "And don't you dare let go!"  But it did.  To make a long story short I don't know what I'd do without her! Our love for each other is still growing, and occasionally one of us is bound to lay our ears back, but we are more than just friends now--we are a team!  Why?  Because one of us chose to "Hold on" and Love even when there was little to no love back. One of us decided to "Hold on" and seek whatever talent it was that the other had.  And as I look back, I really wonder who "Held on" the longest..maybe it was really Missy who was hanging on the longest....waiting for someone to reach out and love her for what she is not what she could be if only she could do this or that.  

Maybe I'm not coming around to the point fast enough for ya, but there is nothing wrong in you being yourself for Jesus.  You don't have to compare yourself to what others are doing--you have that special something that your holding onto that you can use for Jesus.  You may not be loved for what you do.  You may be hated, but don't ever stop doing what it is that He designed you to do.  Someone else needs that "Love" that "talent" that you hold so don't you dare ever let go of what you were meant to Hold!  Because if you've let go--you are most likely missing a few wonderful "Missy's."