I LOVE ICE CREAM

I LOVE ice cream. I like singing at the top of my lungs to songs that make my heart sing. I love reading books while listening to piano music, lying on my stomach, with my legs crossed in the air, with candles and tons of junk food around me. I love yoga, ballet, musicals, fashion, and extreme amounts of coffee. I adore laying in sand, city in the background, waves crashing, praying with one of the most amazing friends God has graciously brought into my life. I have dreams of teaching children, traveling to Africa, praying with the broken, seeing my friends come to Christ, growing in relationship with my heavenly father, and pleasing him with my life.

I’m exactly who God has made me to be, I’m Steven Pokorski. I’m not my school, my job, my homework, my friends, or who any human being tells me I am. I am only the person that God has created me to be. If I tried to be someone else, it would be measured up to dressing up like Oprah Winfrey, four months after Halloween, and acting like nothing was out of place.


I’m not sorry that I love chick flicks, reading books like Cold Tangerines, and drinking coffee at a hole in the wall coffee place, with a group of girls, until 2 A.M. I’m not sorry that some of the joy God has placed in my soul comes from teaching a children’s choir, and dreaming about sharing his word as a 4th grade teacher.

I am who God tells me . I am who God has created me to be. If what I’m doing aligns with God’s Word, if it leads me in paths of righteousness and wisdom without hindrance to my relationship with my heavenly Father, you bet your britches it’s not going to change.

The best person you will ever know how to be, is you. God didn’t create you to be the next Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, or Shaquille O'Neal. He created you to be who he says you are. If that means you love to do things that don’t
fit the normal or the typical, praise God, he added a little spice when you came into the casserole of culture and personality within the body of Christ.

REFUSE to be anyone else, embrace who God has created you to be.

So with all you are and have been created to be, be brave, be bold, in who you are.



Psalms 139

1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to [b] me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.