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         (Dad:) Being spiritual is just being you! It's being what the Lord wants you to be, where He wants you to be, when He wants you to be, and doing what He wants you to do. It's being loving, kind, thoughtful, giving, considerate, and all the fruits of the Spirit. It's being happy. It's praising and praying, and doing it in the way and in the personality the Lord gave you! You can do all those things in whatever personality the Lord gave you, whether a bubbly personality or a quiet personality. Being spiritual is just doing what the Lord wants you to do, the way He made you to do it.
         It's a lot like wearing clothes. One type of personality may wear clothes with styles that are more conservative, with more reserved colors, shades of dark blue and brown. Somebody else may like to wear clothes with bright colors, pink and orange, flashy or exotic. Some may like to wear short skirts, while the other would prefer to wear pants. Just because people wear different types of clothes doesn't mean that one is better than the other, or better dressed than the other, or more fashionable than the other. It just sort of comes with the personalities. The main thing is that you have something on for protection.
         So if you're loud and more enthusiastic, more bubbly or talkative or more active, that's just the way the Lord made your spiritual clothes--brighter and more colorful! But they're not any less spiritual than someone else's clothes that are of a quieter, less outgoing nature. In the Lord's eyes it's all the same, but He likes to dress people up in different personalities. That way it gives Him variety too--variety in the different personalities who love Him and express themselves in different ways, who serve Him in their different forms of personalities.
         He likes all of them, whether quiet and reserved, or bubbly and exuberant. He loves each one the same, and each personality can be equally spiritual. Because spiritual to Him is just being the way He made you--the way He made you to express yourself, express your love for Him, and the way He made you to act and to serve Him.
         So be who you are, play the role He has given you to play, and don't worry about whether you're spiritual or not. Just be you, loving Jesus the best you can!



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