"Fearlessly Authentic"

     I sat here on my bed for about an hour typing and then deleting, then typing and then deleting, over and over again. Struggling with starting how to write my first post because I didn't know what type of writer I wanted to come across as. Sarcastic and witty? or maybe bubbly and friendly? or was I suppose to be more intellectual and serious? All these different types of personalities plaguing my mind till I glanced up at the title of this whole blog "FEARLESSLY AUTHENTIC". I started to smile (and laughed at myself a little), here I was trying to be who I thought those reading this would want me to be when all I had to be was me. I had to be "fearlessly authentic" in who I was, and just write how I wanted to write. To let God work through me and my fingers as they type each word, to say what He wanted me to say. That's what started this whole idea, learning how to live fearlessly authentic in who God made us to be to ultimately bring His name glory. God made us each so unique, even down to our DNA, no one has the exact same variation of DNA as you do, which is absolutely crazy. (Which I know sounds like super cheesy but being a young college girl going into nursing I'm a sucker for lame medical biblical examples). In this world it is so easy to feel as if you're just a dot in the ocean, I mean this is a pretty vast world and it can feel like out of these billions of people you just kind of fade into oblivion. And that is exactly the lie Satan would want us to believe, but whether you realize it or not every little quirk, every little reason for every thing you do goes back to this complex personality that God installed in only you.

    So that's what my mission is, to show others (especially young girls like me) how to be just that. To be fearlessly who God made them to authentically be. Then there's also another lie that's on the opposite end of the totem pole that we have such a hard time with when it comes to being authentic, because Satan tells us we aren't special, we aren't worth it, we aren't unique... we then try to become someone that stands out. We all desire to be appreciated and noticed and admired, and because of that  we start to strive to become someone that everyone else wants us to be. We conform to what society desires us to be but derives away from who God made us to be. The same way that I struggled with how to write because I was so focused on pleasing my readers and giving into the desires they wanted, when all I needed was to give in to the desires that God had placed in my own heart and to let them flow out from there.

     In a nutshell that's what this blog is about, of course there will be the fun stuff like health tips and makeup favorites and all those girly things we all love, I just want to be a safe place where people can come and be who they were meant to be. To come and be fearlessly authentic.

- Rachel