Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

When I was a little girl, I love to handmade cards for my parents. I always like to tell them how

much I love them and show my affection with these handmade cards. And I used to put my signature

butterflies and flowers all over them. You know, I did the same kind of butterfly and the same kind

of flower every time. Not long ago, I was going through a stack of scrapbooks that my mother had so,

you know, carefully saved and put together. When I came across one of these signature cards that I

had made, and there it was, my butterflies and flowers, as I was looking at it, I noticed at the

bottom of the page written in yellow pencil were these words. I feel like we are somebody important

and I know that we are. When my eyes dropped to those words, I thought, what in the world was I

thinking as a little girl? I feel like we're someone important and I know that we are. What was

I thinking? Why can't I feel like that now? You see, I feel like I am something important and I

know that I am. It really, it made me laugh. It made me chuckle. But you know what, I couldn't let

those words slide by. They kept going through my mind the next day and the next day because I thought,

what was I thinking? And then it was if I realized inside of every single one of us is the voice of

God saying, you are made in my image. You are valuable. You are significant and you are important

in this life. You see, inside of every one of us, there is a voice that is speaking out,

value, significance and importance. But sometimes life tries to change and drown out that voice.

It tries to devalue us. Unfair things happen. People talk about you. Somebody walks out on your

life, struggles, problems. They distort that voice. They try to speak louder than that voice.

You know, I realize though, God has put that in, each and every one of us. And we have to allow

that voice to come out of us. Because see, this doesn't matter what we think. It matters who we are.

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