You Look Marvelous!
Today is the day of Love...
Flowers and Candy...
Heart shaped trinkets...
Poems and Sonnets ....
We proclaim our love to our spouse..
Express our love to our children...
Let friends and family know that we care...
BUT..........
What about us...
I mean Me...
I mean that person that we see in that mirror...
Do you Love you??
How do you see yourself?
Now, I am not talking about loving yourself in the way that some people do...
Like, the ones who post 76589000 pics of themselves gazing in the mirror...
I am not talking about a conceited, I am better than you type of Love...
I mean a real "I am created in the image of Christ" Love.
Truth is, many of us do not like what we see in that mirror,
what we see usually causes self-loathing...
We see the extra pounds, the dimples in the thighs, the receding hairline,
Sometimes what we see goes deeper....past mistakes, regrets, pain.
Each of these things (and there are SO many more, I only named a few)
Eats away at our love for ourselves
Before we know it..
We begin to avert our eyes, never really looking at that person.
We never really see who we are..
Worse yet, we can't see ourselves the way that Christ sees us.
We are each made in His image,
We are the works of His hands..
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I’d even lived one day...Psalm 139:13-16
This is from The Message Bible and I love this translation
Do you see where it says ....Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
Then it goes on to say I worship in adoration-what a creation!
Don't you find that refreshing and liberating?
I adore the fact that these two sentences end with an exclamation mark....
Real excitement!!!!!!!!!
Let me be honest, I am as guilty as the next person when it comes to self loathing...
I do the whole," when I lose a few pounds", "when the wrinkles disappear",
"When my hair finally grows", etc. etc.
The list can go on forever...
But Not Anymore!!!
I declare that this day
Valentine's Day 2013 is for me,
A day to celebrate loving myself...
To celebrate the marvelous way that I was created...
by the Master's hand..
In His image...
I will look at myself in that mirror.
I am talking about really looking, gazing
and I will say ......
I am marvelously made
and I will say it with an exclamation mark!!!!
Love yourself today,
You are beautiful and special and unique,
there is only one you!
Celebrate that today and everyday!!!!!
I am off to find a mirror.....
Let the Love Fest begin!
Be Marvelous,
Shelly
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