You're Beautiful!

You are BEAUTIFUL!
Regardless of gender or stage of life, you are beautiful.
I am blessed with the oppurtunity to serve middle school girls and recently we went to camp for one week. The overwhelming theme that came up during the week, was Beauty. As leaders we felt the calling to reassure our girls that we are fearfully and wonderfully made in the eyes of our creator and we do not have to impress him with glamour or glitz, he already thinks we are GORGEOUS. We even went to the extent of hiding each girls make-up and boy was it alot! After a week of reminding girls that it's our hearts that makes us beautiful and not our bodys or faces, I found myself falling victim to the insecurities we tried to destroy. Looking in the mirror all I could see was the results of not running anymore, the excessive amount of pimples and the lions mane I call my hair. I did not feel Beautiful. It was hard for me to believe that Lord relishes in my beauty. I thought, " If I am so Beautiful...Why am I single?"All I could hear was the world's beauty whispering in my ear.
In the midst of my insecurities I heard a stern loving voice say, "I made that."
To the prophet Jeremiah the Lord said " I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart as my spokesman to the world." Our heavenly Papa made us and he knew us before anyone else. He has a purpose for us and he made us so that the world could see his beauty. In  knowing his beauty we find ours. Our insecurities and doubts come from this world.
You were Beautifully Made.