You know when you take a moment to look at a flower, and I mean really look at it?
Aren't they just beautiful?!
I was thinking about this last night. How we always look at flowers and see them as absolutely beautiful. When we come across a blemish, a broken petal or some type of spot, we still think that this flower is the most beautiful thing. Everything about it is precious, delicate, and just beautiful.
Have you ever thought about the reality that God feels the same way when he looks at us?
I know I know, some of you might be thinking--wow, how relevant.
IT IS!
That big guy upstairs actually CREATED us! And he sees those flaws and thinks they are incredibly beautiful. Why?
Because God makes BEAUTIFUL THINGS. He doesn't make mistakes! He makes us all beautiful, unique in our own ways. I read this out of a cute book called Unsqueezed, by Margot Starbuck last night and felt I had to share it with you ladies.
Pre-cursor. This has to do with our flaws, the things we think are imperfections, when really they just set us a part from the rest of humanity.
"For years I had watched these horrible makeover shows that make women look like people they're not, all under the clever guise of boosting their attractiveness. In that instant, though I finally understood why each face and each body had been created differently in the first place. I understood, intuitively, why God didn't decided to give each one of us identical matching trouble-free hair, cute perky noses, wide sparkly doe eyes, cut abs and cellulite-free thighs.
It's because HUMAN BEINGS ARE WORTH RECOGNIZING.
Because the individual who is knowable through each body is so entirely WORTH being seen, and heard, and known and loved, God went to all the trouble of making everyone of us different--billions of us, in fact--so that each one of us could be recognized by one another. Precisely because that IS a lot of trouble. I have to believe that God had a pretty good reason for doing that purposeful cumbersome thing."
Unsqueezed, by Margot Starbuck
How incredible is that?!
Just think about that one today. Think about those blemishes you see and replace those lies with the fact that God created you that way to set you apart from every other woman on this earth. To make you UNIQUE.
Still not convinced? Check out what two radical women are doing in LA. That's right, BEAUTY central in our minds.
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