It's all right to be who you are, because who you are, as God's expression, is wonderful.
Sometimes, though, we may feel less than wonderful, and, in fact, baffled about what being ourselves really means. Each of us seems to be a product of heredity, chance, personal flaws, the views of others, past experiences and impressions, the world's assessment of what is or isn't normal, attractive, significant, and so forth. All of this would impose itself on us as our actual nature and makeup and obscure a recognition of our true individuality, which is the outcome of God, sparkling in every facet.
The so-called carnal mind, which St. Paul says is "enmity against God," Rom. 8:7. tells us we're separate from our creator and pretty much on our own to succeed or fail. It insists that man is a fleshly personality—that physicality is the essence of individuality. But this isn't man. It's not who we really are. It can't be, because mortal personality is just that—mortal. And man's creator—the only creator—is immortal Spirit, the one God, who has made man immortal, the expression of His infinitely varied and exquisite being.
