You're Beautiful

You know those days where nothing goes right? Those days where your outfit that you planned the night before just isn’t working?  Those days where your makeup does not cover up those little imperfections that now see so obvious?  Those lovely days where your hair plays a joke on you and you start your period on top of everything?  Yea, I’ve had plenty of those days in my life.  As girls we face many of those low self-esteem days when we feel awful and don’t want to leave the house.  We dwell on the little things that now seem so amplified.  In all honesty, those days suck, and they get me down.  I know that there are so many girls out there that struggle with self-esteem and these days don’t help us at all.  It’s difficult, but you have to keep telling yourself that you are wonderfully made.  It took me a while to get to that point.

I realized that I am beautiful.  Yes, I have made this realization at the age of 19.  It came a little late but it came just the same.  It took me a while to get here, but now that I have arrived, I am not going anywhere.  You see, I have always lacked confidence and I was always the shy kid in school.  Moving away from my small town in Massachusetts to attend college in Georgia I was forced out of my shell.  I was all of a sudden surrounded by a ton of Christian girls who loved God so much.  They are all so beautiful and they have this confidence that I strived to achieve.  They kept telling me how beautiful I was, on the inside and out, but I never believed it.  Until one day, it hit me.  I am beautiful because the maker of the Earth created me.  Having that encouraging environment help me in ways that those girls will never know.  There was one girl in particular on my hall.  She was beautiful and after listening to her testimony I realized why.  She had been through so many things in her life, but she still loved God with the amazing passion that I had never seen before.  What is on the inside really is what matters.    

God created you in His image.  He did not make junk.  He loves you.  You are so lovely because you are a child of God.  He created you in His perfect design and He has a beautiful plan for your life.