When I grow up...

How many times have you asked or been asked "What do you want to be when you grow up?"  What was your answer?  Did it change as you grew?  Think about this quote from John Lennon, 

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down 'happy'.  They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

Who do you think is right?  My thought is neither.  How about this answer: I want to be me when I grow up.  I want to be who God designed me to be.  Not who you think I should be or my teacher or my friends think I should be.  I just want to be me.  I want to be the person who absorbs all that is going on around them.  I want to be the person who gets into other people's stories.  I want to view nature as what it is- God's masterpiece.  I want to be a light in the world, even if it's just my own little part.  I want to love the person even if I don't love what they are doing.  I want to forge my own path even when it's hard...because it is in the discovery of new things that we learn so much about ourselves.  So when I grow up I want to be me.  Whatever that may look like, I want to fulfill God's dreams for me not man's dreams for me.  His purpose is so much more than mine and His goals are so much greater.  People say shoot for the stars while God says "I created the stars."  I am fearfully and wonderfully made by the one who made it all, and THAT is exactly what I want to be.