So I started this thing… because I really need to…
I tell myself everyday that God made me beautiful.
I hate it.
I don’t feel beautiful.
Not just on the outside (but especially on the outside)
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| I felt most beautiful in Haiti |
But on the inside too (but we won’t go there)
I think I have some ok features, but rarely do I look at
myself and say “wow, you’re beautiful”.
But I have friends who tell me that I am. My friend Katie tells her boys to say it to me, my friend Amanda
is always telling me that.
How after years and years of not measuring up to whatever
people thought was beautiful do I change the way I look at myself? How do I really start to undo the things of
the past and really believe I am who God says I am? Beautiful. Inside and out.
What are the steps I take to undo a knot that is so tight? I
am going to reread the book Captivating and do the study. But what else?
Eph 2:10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Comments
We have a special needs daughter who by the worlds standards is anything but beautiful. She has Sotos Syndrome and is 6'4"...and very manly looking. Most people think she is a boy...and she gets that every day. She truly is nothing that great to look at.
But you know what...she is absolutely gorgeous...because God created her exactly like she should be. Even thoughs days when her Autism comes out in full force and you see bad behaviour...she still has a heart and soul created by God.
YOU ARE BEAUTIFL...and it has nothing to do with outside. Yes, we are to keep ourselves healthy as our bodies are His temple (preaching to myself...yikes)...but inside is altogether different. And from just finding your blog recently, I see a beautiful heart...a heart that has been wiped clean by the blood of Jesus...and forget what the world sees....God sees you as "justified...righteous".
Now just go out and live for Him...and see the beauty he will create through you and onto other people. You have a gift...now run with it...and you will be a Life changer.
Many blessings and prayers for your day.
Connie