You were born with unique DNA. Our genome is our body's complete set of genetic instructions, made up of DNA. Three billion letters make up a person's DNA, and each human being's genome differs from the "reference human genome" in 4.1 million to 5 million places.
You were born to a unique set of circumstances, time, place, family, natural affinities, intrinsic motivations, attraction to objects, activities and people in your environment. The arrangements and combinations of all the factors that create a human being - you! - may reach to the infinite.
You are indeed a marvel of God's creation, fresh from His Hand!
You are unique, and you have immense dignity, for God fashioned you in God's own Image and Likeness. God created all your inward as well as your outward parts, secretly at work in your mother's womb. You have a unique soul fashioned by God, a gorgeous interior castle where God loves to continually dwell. God knows and understands you, through and through. God delights in you!
You are a perfect example of a God Who loves differences; you live in a world in which there are 12,000 species of butterflies, over 100 sub-species of deer; and 391,000 species of plants. Perhaps you sometimes feel depressed or insecure about being "different' in some way from the people around you. You may feel hurt, or embarrassed if people reject you because of your being different in any way. Hold on to this truth: God deliberately chose to make you, just as you are, in all your intricacy. You should celebrate your differences! You should be and do whatever God calls you to be and do. Look for people who will love you and support you.
God calls to you in the depths of your being, calls out for you to love God as God loves you. Look at your face, hair, body, mind, emotions, your capacity to think, your capacity to feel, your many gifts, your ever-searching soul, and give God praise and thanks. Think of the people you love and who love you, and give God thanks and praise. God calls you as not only your Creator but your Lover, Who wants to be united to you for all eternity. Give God thanks and praise! Give God your heart in return.
Take time to be still with God, to picture yourself with your head on God's shoulder or being cradled in God's arms. Let God soothe and rock your fears and hurts away. Hear God tell you that you are handsome or beautiful in every way. God sees to the depths of you. God knows your inner beauty. God knows who you really are. Trust in what God tells you. Trust in God's delight in you!
God knows every circuit of your brain. There is nothing you can think of that God does not hear, nothing you can feel that God does not experience. There is nothing that you do that God does not see.
God knows your race. God knows your sexual orientation. God knows your religion. God knows if you have developmental disabilities. God knows if you have considered suicide. There is nowhere you can go, in mind or body, that God does not live. Don't let this scare you. Don't be angry. God lives in you to support, guide, and strengthen you. God's love wants to heal you of hurt. God will never, ever turn away from you. God is nearer to you than your own being.
The psalmist tells us
"For God alone my soul waits in silence,
for my hope is from Him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be shaken."
Your are fearfully, wonderfully made, fresh from God's Hand. God clothes you in a robe of salvation. God wraps you in a mantle of justice. God has accepted you as God's child, crowned you as royalty, called you by a new name, and keeps your name engraved upon God's heart. Believe this with all your being, feel loved by God with all your being, and you will be free to grow into all you are capable of becoming. Be interiorly free, God's precious, unique, child, and you will be exteriorly free to forge a completely new, "you" path of love, peace, justice, mercy, and creativity in this world.