Destined to Be Different

Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Letting down your Guards

Author’s Note

DEDICATION

First, I wanna give honor to my heavenly father, God alone. I want to honor my beautiful mother Janette Fells and my father Robert Simpkins, who is now deceased. These two people are the most important people in my life because if it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be here.

I also want to thank God for my six wonderful children, Shelicia, Marvin, Contarrius, Anthony, Antoinette, Angel. They have been the inspiration that have kept me moving. And last but not least, I want to give thanks to my grandmothers and grandfathers for being the link for me being here.

Introduction

We as people of God are destined to be different. Being different is simply being just who God created us to be. We may have some of the same characteristics, looks, shapes, sizes, but we are all different in some unique way.

I have found that we as people on earth have a tendency to look at other people and want to mimic them, not knowing that we can’t be exactly like that person. God created every one of us just the way he wanted us to be.

From mine own experience, I have learned that being different causes you to be noticed and also causes you to stand out like a sore thumb.

For so many years I did not enjoy being who God created me to be because it caused me so much pain. I had to walk alone because I was so different.

Growing up as a little girl I never understood why I did not have people that I could call true friends.

As a little girl, I felt different but I didn’t know in what way.This became a struggle for me because people would not hang out with me. This became a journey with so much pain because I was only a kid and I did not understand why I didn’t fit in with the crowd. I tried to fit in but it just didn’t work. It never dunned on me, with being so young, that I was this way only because I had a call on my life and I was chosen by God for greatness.

As I grew older I tried to make myself fit in but it only caused me trouble.

I remember when I was 5 years old, I heard the Holy Spirit tell me that I might as well get use to walking alone because this would be a journey with me