Daily Meditation for October 21, 2025

Not long ago I read the statement, “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken!”

We are often inclined to compare ourselves with others or wish to be like someone we admire. Yet being one’s true self is a lifetime piece of work. It is so easy to forget we were each created by a loving God to be one’s beautiful self. Living one day at a time and learning from yesterday’s mistakes with HOPE helps us on this journey of becoming who God wants us to be.

Worrying is never helpful; that which we are concerned about may never happen! Going to bed on time, welcoming a new morning each day with grateful prayer and a steady pace, laughing more and being kind to unkind people may be part of our journey to wholeness and holiness.

And, if God is always for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)

By Kathy Rademacher, OSB