Two-Colored Eyed Girl

       "God made me this way", said a little two-colored eyed girl. Yesterday just broke my heart to pieces because of what one of my little girls said. I learned so much from her yesterday then I have in years. It's funny how we get so caught up in who we are even though our parents try to teach us that we are spiecal no matter what. I know my parents did a great job of teaching me that. It wasn't til high school that I really cared about the way I talked and I don't even think about it anymore really but I love this story to share with any other little child that I come across that needs reminders of how beautiful and speical they are in Christ.
        I have a girl at my job where she has 2 different colored eyes. One is blue and the other is brown. It catches you off track when you first look at her but you get use to it the more time you spend with her. I think they are beautiful every time I look at them. It reminds that God made us all spiecal in different ways. Earlier last week, I think it was a Friday, she told me that she wanted to be a supermodel, teacher, and to be on TV. I remember thinking "how neat it would be if she really got to be a model with her eyes like that", "how neat it is that she still dreams that with how she is made", "still has that courage". That got me first because knowing today's world that is no way she could me a supermodel but maybe sometime in her time she can be.
         What really catches me about this girl is her answer to everyone that asks about her eyes. Her answer is "God made me that way". She is not ashamed of her eyes because someone in her life has told her that God made her that way and she believes it or at least keeps saying it. She has had a lot of other children ask her "why are your eyes different colors" and that is her answer every time. No matter the age of the child that is asking her young or old. She said it to a older girl yesterday and that is what got me started on our bedtime talk last night.
          I wanted her to know that she is beautiful no matter what anyone says and that God made us all different for a reason even me. Then I went into the way I talk and how people use to comment on it all the time when I was younger. I don't know how much of that she got but I hope some of it or at least the important parts of it. I hope and pray that she won't let anyone put her down because of her differences.
          I got to thinking last night too while saying prayers for her that her differences aren't that easy to hide like mine was. With the way I talked I could just be quite and act shy and no one would know that I was any different. I even took speech classes to try and fix my speech but that helped very little it seems like. If I worked really on on the way I talk it could be gone for good. She can't do that with her eyes because when you look right at her you see them. I mean when she gets older she could get those different colored contacts but still you can never get rid of them permentantly.
          This little girl doesn't have a good home but yet she is still happy and positive about the way God made her. She can still say, "God made me this way" and you know what with the kind of life she started out with and may have most of her life that is a good "phase" to live by. I can see her has some kind of big speaker/supermodel on TV when she grows up just telling her life story and how God has changed her life. I don't know about you but I want to be a part of that story.
        
         Through this story my challenge for you is: Why don't we get up everyday starting it with the phase "God made me this way"? What little things do we have that we take for granted, whether good or bad? Do we make big deals out of the smallest things? God made us different for a reason.