The thing we can seem to get our heads around is the fact that beauty is diverse. Girls, you don't have to be petite, with porcelain skin and completely toned up to be beautiful. Guys, you don't have to have the Hollister body and handsome face to be beautiful. We have created these ideas of beauty in our minds. What beauty is in others, and what it is in ourselves. But what we have come up with is so very far from what real beauty is. Beauty has become all about image to us.
But this is the truth; You are beautiful.
I know you look in the mirror everyday and wish you could change something. I know that you've cried on many occasions because you felt you never matched up. Never got the guy or girl you wanted, because you felt you weren't pretty or handsome enough. But you are beautiful. You may not think it but you totally are. You were created in the image of God for crying out loud! You were sewn together in your mothers womb, a wonderful tapestry designed by the mighty God himself. You were fearfully and wonderfully made by a loving and faithful God who promises never to forsake or abandon you no matter what you do.
Here's what they don't tell you, that stereotype of beauty you want to fit into? No one fits in that. Everyone is different, everyone unique. And its a huge blessing! A creative God wouldn't make everyone the same. And a loving God isn't unfair in his distribution of beauty. Everyone is beautiful. But you have to be your own kind of beautiful. You have to make it your own. You have to own your own beauty. I'm guilty of this too, believe me, the amount of times I feel I haven't been smart enough, pretty enough, or beautiful enough is unbelievable. But I am done of letting it own me. I am done with consuming myself with it. I was designed for more than that. I was designed by a master craftsman who knows way more than I do.
But I just wanted to tell you that you are beautiful, and don't you dare let anyone else tell you otherwise.
