"May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be"

As I grow, I'm learning that there are times where God challenges me. In the past few weeks, I'm beginning to truly understand how much I'm not just "Catholic" as something to tick off in a box but that being a child of God is rooted within me. To know what it means to be unconditionally loved -- no matter how much I falter, or how insolent I feel I am being, it doesn't change that God loves me and wants me to be better.

I know I've posted this poem before but it's one of my favourites. The part in italics has helped me though difficult moments. The poem reminds me of how much God loves each of us. That before we were born, the days of our lives (haha, no pun intended) were written. That our parents were specially chosen so that we would be just what God intended. That God wanted each of us to be born, that we are here for a special purpose. That through it all, God is with us, loving us and guiding us.

You are who you are for a reason.
You're part of an intricate plan.
You're a precious and perfect unique design,
Called God's special woman or man.

You look like you look for a reason.
Our God made no mistake.
He knit you together within the womb,
You're just what he wanted to make.

The parents you had were the ones he chose,
And no matter how you may feel,
They were custom-designed with God's plan in mind,
And they bear the Master's seal.

No, that trauma you faced was not easy.
And God wept that it hurt you so;
But it was allowed to shape you heart
So that into his likeness you'd grow.

You are who you are for a reason,
You've been formed by the Master's rod.
You are who you are beloved,
Because there is a God!