God's Beautiful Creation

 AS I SIT HERE AND THINK ABOUT THE NAME BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS, I CANNOT HELP BUT TO SMILE AT THE IRONY OF THE NAME. YOU SEE JUST 19  YEARS AGO I STRUGGLED INTERNALLY WITH THE WORD BEAUTIFUL AND THE IDEA THAT I COULD EVER BE CONSIDERED A BEAUTIFUL PERSON.  I  WOULD CUT MYSELF, I  OVERDOSED ON 28 PILLS, WAS IN AND OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, AND  ATE AJAX BLEACH. ALL BECAUSE I HATED WHAT I SAW WHEN I LOOKED IN THE MIRROR. YOU SEE, I DIDN'T KNOW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT I WAS GOD'S BEAUTIFUL CREATION. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE FORMED AND FASHIONED ME IN HIS IMAGE AND THAT HE MADE NO MISTAKES IN THE PROCESS. I ALSO DIDN'T KNOW THAT PEOPLE COULD NEVER DETERMINE MY VALUE. NO MATTER WHAT THEY DID TO ME, SAID ABOUT ME OR HOW THEY TREATED ME, I WOULD STILL NEVER LOSE MY PRICELESS VALUE.

     SOMETIMES WE SIT AND WE PAINT THIS PICTURE ON THE CANVAS OF OUR MINDS OF WHO WE THINK WE SHOULD LOOK LIKE. SOME OF US HAVE PAINTED A PICTURE OF WHAT WE THINK WE WOULD LOOK LIKE IF WE WERE PERFECT. SOME OF US HAVE IMAGINED OURSELVES WITH LONGER HAIR, BIGGER HIPS, 8 PACK ABS, PETITE BODY FRAMES...ETC... AND THE LIST CAN GO ON AND ON. WE SIT AND WE LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND WE BECOME OUR BIGGEST CRITICS. WE CRITICIZE OUR BEAUTIFUL NOSE, OUR CHIN, OUR PERSONALITY. WE SAY THINGS LIKE, IF I COULD ONLY BE MORE SOFT SPOKEN, IF I WERE TALLER, IF I,,,IF I....IF I.

     GOD HAS MADE EACH OF US UNIQUE IN APPEARANCE, PERSONALITY AND TALENT. I AM WRITING TO TELL YOU TODAY THAT GOD DID NOT MAKE ANY MISTAKES WHEN HE MADE YOU. I AM ALSO WRITING TO TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND RADIANT, WHEN YOU ARE NATURALLY WHO HE MADE YOU TO BE AND WHEN YOU ARE AUTHENTICALLY YOU. SOME OF YOU LOVE TO WEAR FANCY AND ELEGANT APPAREL. YOU LOVE EXPENSIVE PERFUMES, HIGH HEELS AND FORMAL JEWELRY. SOME OF YOU ARE BOOKWORMS  AND NERDS AT HEART. AND THEN THERE ARE THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE A        T-SHIRT AND HOODIE KIND OF GIRL. YOU ARE  BEAUTIFUL. THESE TRAITS MAKE YOU WHO YOU ARE. SO STOP LETTING YOUR LIGHT GROW DIM TO MAKE OTHERS AROUND YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE. SHINE BRIGHTLY AND BE AUTHENTIC. YOU ARE ALL GOD'S BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS.