Essay Time

For the Paul Mitchell application I had to write an essay answering the question, "who are you?"
I put it off for a long time because I didn't know what to write. I mean.... who am I? That is actually a difficult question... then I realized..... who I am... who I TRULY believe I am... is all founded in God. If you were to look at my life, I haven't accomplished much by society's standards; I graduated high school, I did a year and a half of a junior college, then decided to go to cosmetology school. But if you were to see me the way God sees me, you would think I was a princess!
So that's how I wrote the essay. And I'm still fighting against the lies that people will think I'm "weird" or "religious." So prayer for that would be great!
Thanks!
Here it is:
I have been working on getting the Paul Mitchell application and all of its components together this week but for some reason I have been dreading this “essay” and I could not figure out why. But after more contemplation, I think it is because this is the most simple, yet hardest question to answer: Who am I? By “normal” standards, I am seen as a girl, a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a co worker. However, none of those are how I see myself. If I only saw myself as those things who would I be when all of that falls away? That is why I choose to find my identity in the most constant thing in the universe, God.
I am His daughter first and foremost and I choose to find my identity in that. He created the entire universe, but He also created me and gave me a destiny and a purpose. He created me in His image and He takes delight in me. He loves me, not for what I have done or because of anything I have accomplished, but because He made me. The simple fact that I exist and breathe is enough for Him to rejoice. He calls me beloved and beautiful one. He pours His love out on me every single day and His love is life changing. It is all-consuming and glorious. It is like nothing else in the world. It covers all sin and proclaims it null and void. His love will never, ever go away and that promise is what I cling to.
The destiny that He has called me to is only beginning to unfold. I know that my purpose is to encourage and love women. God spoke and said that I would “fulfill the needs of their flesh but also their spirits.” That I would make them feel beautiful inside and out by delivering the life-changing words from Him to His daughters while doing their hair, and makeup, and nails. I would help them see who they truly are through God’s eyes and not society’s and I would help them see that they are beautiful creations and meant for so much more!
This is who I am and this is the truth I get to walk into every single day. I live in constant awe and reverence of God and rejoice that every day is a new opportunity to love God with all my being and praise Him.