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# Uniquely You
- URL: https://dd.malinoix.com/uniquely-you/
- Published: 2011-09-07T00:00:35.000Z
- Updated: 2011-09-07T00:00:35.000Z
- Author: Maggie Winterton
- Tags: Devotionals, Body Image, Friendship, Health, Women's Issues, #wordpress, #Import 2026-10-12 13:59

[![](https://dd.malinoix.com/content/images/wordpress/2011/09/uniquelyRenee-300x300.jpg "uniquelyRenee")](https://dd.malinoix.com/content/images/wordpress/2011/09/uniquelyRenee.jpg)Growing up, being uniquely you was considered a bad thing.

*I should know.*

I was the *shy* home school kid (yes, I said **SHY**) with no friends and very little social interaction. I mostly read–**a lot** and practiced piano for hours a day.

That all changed when I entered college and finally found myself. I learned how to be comfortable in my own skin. *Literally*.

**The reason WHY I write and am heavily involved [ministry](https://devotionaldiva.com/ministry?ref=dd.malinoix.com) is because** **I lost the skin off my face and feet due to severe eczema when I was 15, and it took me over 6 years to recover.** 

Basically the years when a girl becomes a woman.

*I never thought a man would ever love me.*

*I never thought I would have a normal life.*

*I never thought my skin would heal.*

But God did all those things…because He loves me…and because I’m His daughter.

*I am unique.*

This past weekend, my parents threw my *fiancé* and I a wedding shower. It was an amazing time for Marc to meet my parents international friends including a few pastors.

One of them had a word for us.

Normally, when someone says that I get excited. Why? Because I’ve learned to **test everything**(1 Thessalonians 5:21, NLT).

But I always pray about it because I want to see if the Lord confirms it. That’s how prophecy works. The Holy Spirit is constantly at work and if our eyes are opened we shall **see** it (2 Kings 6:17).

So I share this word with you for a number of reasons.

*First*, it’s been a while since I’ve given any update about how I’m doing in this whole engagement process. It’s been a blur because we’re also moving Marc into a new house.

*Second*, I’ve been VERY emotional (as I should be and with good reason too). I didn’t want to share during this time purely for hype to get more blog hits. It’s easy to do this at times, and I wanted to wait it out.

*Third*, I wanted God to speak. *Wait, shouldn’t that be first?*

So the “word.” It came from 1 Samuel 2:30 that says, “…“*I will honor those who honor me*.” Then he said that Marc and I are “unique.” As in created for a eternal purpose, for each other, and because we honored the Lord and waited for one another.

I was reading Song of Solomon in my One Year Bible and came upon this verse and it HIT me…

> *“Sixty queens there may be,* 
> *and eighty concubines,* 
> *and virgins beyond number;* 
> *but my dove, my perfect one, is *unique*,* 
> *the only daughter of her mother,* 
> *the favorite of the one who bore her.* 
> *The young women saw her and called her blessed;* 
> *the queens and concubines praised her.” \~Song of Solomon 6:8-9, NIV*

*I am unique.*

Instantly, I felt like cowering in fear. “*Do not stare at me because I am dark*” (Song of Solomon 1:6a, NIV). I hate what my health has done to my body. **Sometimes I am so insecure about my weight and other emotional issues like fear that I feel unworthy of receiving love**.

I have been processing through this the past week and asking God to help me overcome my fears. And He HAS. Today, I came across a post by Mary DeMuth called “[Don’t Live Your Life in Fear](http://www.marydemuth.com/2011/09/we-live-our-lives-in-fear/?ref=dd.malinoix.com).” She said something about being *unique*.AHH! I let my fingers run as fast as they could back to WordPress. I knew I had to write this NOW and not save it for Monday’s blog.

I wonder, **Did you know you are unique?** Like me, **Have you ever felt ashamed or embarrassed about it**? Today (or ever) is not the time because “*the Lord honors those who honor him*…”

*“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago” (Ephesians 2:10, NIV).*