Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We're picking up a new devotional

in the Bible app called Choosing Peace and there's a link to that in the description of the podcast

if you guys want to follow along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture

and then Tori's going to pick up with the Devo. Let's do it. The scripture is Psalms 139 verse 14

and it says this thank you for making me so wonderfully complex your workmanship is marvelous how

well I know it. The devotional says be yourself is a saying you've likely seen or heard 15 times already

today the idea behind the phrase takes on several different meanings one is the forget the world

variety which tells us to throw out all societal conventions all care or thought of others

and their opinions and just do what we feel like but then we realize this won't work because we

actually do care about what other people think and that's not a bad thing in fact it's a good

thing to want and even need this kind of connection to others there's also the quote your perfect

just the way you are version of be yourself which insists that personal growth life improvement

and wanting to be a better person betrays your true self just be your own flawed self let the

cards lie as they may but a world where no one cares to grow or improve sounds like a new kind of

hell that's a world with no apologies and no forgiveness no aha moments and no newness that's not

a world any of us want we all have things to apologize for and new places to try to get to

maybe what we should mean by quote be yourself is that we each have a unique purpose in life you

can want to be loved by others and still be yourself you can want to grow and still be yourself

maybe being ourselves isn't a commitment to static individualism but a commitment to our own

unique journey to fullness be yourself can mean I'll be me you be you and together each of us

can be more of who we were meant to be yeah this is so timely because I'm currently reading a book

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