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"'Have you ever imagined what it must feel like to be divinely beautiful?'

'Well now, no, I haven't,' confessed Matthew ingenuously.  

'I have, often.  Which would you rather be if you had the choice---

divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?'

'Well now, I---I don't know exactly.'

'Neither do I.  I can never decide.  

But it doesn't make much real difference for it isn't likely I'll ever be either.'"

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

I was reading Anne of Green Gables last night to Ellie and Kate.  

As we read this excerpt I posed the question to my girls...

Which would you rather be:

divinely beautiful

dazzlingly clever

angelically good???

They both answered without pause or reservation-

Ellie:  dazzlingly clever

Kate:  angelically good

I thought that it was interesting...they are both so different.

Isn't that an amazing aspect of human nature...our uniqueness!

I have loved and interacted with each of my daughters in a very similar way--

yet they have been their own people from the very beginning.

Completely unique.

I also LOVE that they really chose...of the three options...who they already are.

Isn't that wonderful about children?

They aren't trying to be someone they aren't---

just exploring and growing...

just the way they were made...

exactly who they are---

dazzlingly clever & angelically good.