Uniquely You
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | Uncategorized
UNIQUELY YOU
Have you ever stopped to consider why you are the way you are? Let’s go back in time to the moment you were conceived. For some of us that was a long, long time ago. Anyway, at that one moment, one egg and one sperm out of thousands united to form you. If another egg and/or another sperm had united, there would have been a different person created. Someone completely different from you. Your parents may have named that child by your name but he would have been completely different from you. You are the combination of DNA from that one egg and sperm. Your hair color, the amount and texture of your hair, your eye color, your height, your skin tone, and every other characteristic of yours was established at that one instant in time. Had your mother and father been distracted at that moment, someone else would have been created.
There is something that is even more mind boggling than that. The Bible says in Jeremiah 1:5, where God is speaking to the prophet Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” If God could say that about Jeremiah, the same could be said about you. Somehow in the distant past God foreordained that Jeremiah should be just as he was and you should be just as you are. He, according to this verse, had to arrange the circumstances of life so that you would be conceived at that specific moment in time as a result of the union of that one specific egg and that one specific sperm to form the one specific you. Any other moment in time would have resulted in someone other than you. You are indeed unique.
Although you have a combination of DNA that gives you base tendencies, these tendencies can be modified by environment and circumstances of life. If you were born with the tendency of a quick temper, the training by your parents may have resulted in a modification of that tendency. If you have the tendency to gain weight easily, you may have learned to modify your behavior to keep your weight under control. You do have the power to change your natural tendencies.
I have started to grow some fruit trees and so have learned some things relative to shaping and modifying those trees to produce the maximum fruit possible. A peach tree needs to be pruned so that there is no central leader. In other words, the side branches need to be prominent and not the main trunk. With an apple tree the opposite is true. So with a little pruning here and a little there, I can shape the tree to be the most productive it can be. So it is with our nature and character. A little pruning here and a little there helped to shape us into who we are at the present time. Pruning is necessary during the whole lifetime of the fruit tree as well as in our lives.
What in the world does this have to do with building houses? As it is with you, it is with houses. There are no two alike. Oh, they may look alike but they are not exactly the same. Two houses may have the same floor plan and same exterior design, but I can assure you they are not exactly the same in every detail. In the past, I have built the same floor plan over and over again and can tell you that it is impossible to make them exactly the same. The room dimensions are always just a little different, the stud layout is never exactly the same, and the colors are always different since each unique person has unique tastes affecting the end result.
Are you up to the challenge of creating a home that is uniquely yours? The combination or your unique tastes and my unique abilities as a homebuilder will result in a home that is unique. If you build it on a lake lot, you could name it ‘Waters Edge,’ or if it is on the golf course, you could call it ‘Fore-ever Mine,’ or what if………..
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