You are Beautiful

Did you know, you are beautiful?
Well you are. 
You are stunning, radiant and you take God's breath away.
He loves you and created you exactly who you are, 
He loves you at your best and at your worst.
He loves you when you are waring your finest and when you are a sleep with drool hanging out of your mouth.
Yes, we know God loves us, but do you know you are beautiful?

God created you to be just as you are.

The color of your eyes, the dimpels in your face, the hairs on your skin...they all make you beautiful.

Every freckle on your smooth skin, the way you smile, how you laugh, how your eyes puff up when you cry....you are beautiful. 

When you are sick and pale, when you scrape your knee and are bent over, when you are all bundled up in the snow....You are beautiful.

Sadly this world works against us.

It says that we are not tall enough, not skinny enough, not athletic enough, not creative enough, not....enough.
But don't listen to it!

It whispers lies in the dark of night, hoping someone will listen, but that is all that it is...whispered lies.

Hold to the truth.

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. YOU ARE ENOUGH. 

And God Values you.

I value you.

You are made from the Image of God.
You are like no other species in all of creation.
Even God has called you unique. 
God has called all of creation good, but it was not Very Good until we were added. 
You are Stunning.
You and your life make God smile.
There is noone and will never be anyone ever like you again <3
Just thought I'd remind you, you are beautiful and you are precious <3

Do you cling to the dying rose or look to the rising sun?

God know what You've done, Where you've come from and what you are going through.

He knows your heart, your hurts, your joys, and what overwhelms you.

He knows how you yearn for love, for acceptance, for appreciation, to be needed. 

He sees you when you skip for joy.

He holds you when you cry your eyes out.

He laughs with you when snow tickles your nose.

He sends angels to stand guard over you while you rest your head, while you walk throughout your day.

He is with you when you are tempted to sin.

And when you fall down again, when His heart grows heavy.

He knows that hurts you try and cover with the addictions, which only make it worse.

He's with you when you try to go it alone.

He's holding you when your world crumbles around you.

He protects your heart from what you cannot handle but allows you to walk your own path.

And after you've done what you want, He picks you up, holding you close, dusting you off.

Throughout our fleeting days we say we are in control of our lives, doing what we want.

Yes we make our own decisions and from that we must live with our consequences.

But what is the point of all this?!

Why do we get up each day??

Is it for our glory?!? IF  it is I think that we are all screwed over.

Because though life gets hard and we push our faces to the ground,

if this is all there is then why do we work so hard?

Life is so crazy short that people we love and grow so close to are here one min. and gone the next.

IF this is all that there is, that is plain flat out crewel.

But our hope and faith and the promise given to us is that this is not all of it.

This pain and suffering and hurt was not meant to be in the first place.

This life, we being people who attach to each other so easily, we were not meant to separate.

But because of our choices we must be, for a short time.

But our joy is that this is not all.

We do not live for what had polluted this world, but for the things of God- or we should.

A few questions:

Does your life reflect that your hope, your faith is in the promise that was given to you, that we are meant for so much more?

Or do you blend in with the hopeless?

Those who are wrapped up in the things that are dying and fleeting?

Do you cling to the dying rose or look to the rising sun?

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Whispered Prayers on an October's Eve

Lord, here i sit under the canopy of stars arbored by the strong gentle branches of this tree, resting as the slightest breeze plays with my hair tickling my face. Countless thing try and draw my attention; sirens, cars, machines truing on and off, the baseball announcer droning off the score again, the crunch of people scuffing through a handful of fallen leaves, and yet here I still absorbed in Your stillness, in Your peace.

Finally, for once, nothing else matters, not homework or test or money or a job or a relationship or anything, only You. God here in these few moments of peace and a gentle quiet all that matters is You. My nose stings with the deep draw of cool air and yet my hear cannot drink deep enough. My ears long to listen closer to the crickets' song and yet my soul edges ever closer to hear your voice. My legs tell me twigs and bark are poking me and yet I only feel that you, God my Lord, that You are here and that You are holding me because You love me. So here i rest in the cool stillness of this October evening, not simply sitting under a tree looking at bright floating orbs, but falling deeper and more passionately in love with You.

Thank you God for this wonderful evening