I am beautiful!

I hear this song all the time and I always think about what this song means to me. 


"Beautiful" by Mercy Me


The days will come when you don't have the strength

When all you hear is you're not worth anything
Wondering if you ever could be loved
And if they truly saw your heart they'd see too much


You're beautiful
You're beautiful
You are made so much more than all of this
You're beautiful
You're beautiful
You are treasured, You are sacred, You are His
You're beautiful


And praying that you have the heart to find
Cause you are more than what is hurting you tonight
For all the lies you've held inside so long
And they are nothing in the shadow of the cross


You're beautiful
You're beautiful
You are made so much more than all of this
You're beautiful
You're beautiful
You are treasured, You are sacred, You are His
You're beautiful


Before you ever took a breath
Long before the world began
Of all the wonders He possessed
There was one more precious
Of all the earth and skys above
You're the one He madly loves
Enough to death


You're beautiful
You're beautiful
In His eyes


You're beautiful
You were meant for so much more than all of this
You're beautiful
You are treasured, You are sacred, You are His
You're beautiful
You're beautiful
You're meant for so much more than all of this
You're beautiful
You're beautiful
You are treasured, You are sacred, You are His


There is a video about how he came to write this song and it has to do with the ways of the world and his daughters.  He sees how the world influences and sells to little girls, to make them more beautiful or more popular or just more loved. 


The truth of the matter is that there is a worldly person that does value are beauty, and someone who does think we are beautiful, but there is a bigger much more powerful man who loves me blemishes and all.  I'm not talking about my wonderful boyfriend Colby, I'm talking about the Almighty God.  He loves me for me, not for what I wear or how I look.  He loves my heart even though it has it's own blemishes.  I have faults and I'm not perfect and he loves me for those too.  How awesome is that?!  I have not been told I'm beautiful in a long time, and this song says it all.  I have a purpose in life, and what that is I do not know but there is purpose in everything I do everyday.  He has a purpose for me.  I'm waiting anxiously to see what it is.  Perhaps its what I've been led to do and that is care for people day in and day out.  To care for the sick and help make them well or to care for the dying to make them comfortable in their last days or moments of life and to comfort their families.  I want people to be comfortable in life.  More importantly I want people to know that they too are beautiful in His eyes. 


I was driving today, and I thought to myself, those words you are beautiful are so powerful.  While I have not heard them from a man I love dearly in a while, I know I'm beautiful because someone so much more important thinks I am.  I am sacred.  I am a Child of God and I'm sacred to Him.  I'm supposed to spread his word to all that will listen.  I am treasured.  As a child of God he loves me and treasures me everyday, I'm like a rare gem.  He has protected me through many of lifes trials and tribulations and for that I'm eternally grateful.  Maybe we don't recognize Him at that very instance but there are things that happen that make us realize that at that very moment He was there with us, protecting us and treasuring us, trying to keep us safe.    More importantly I am His.  I am a Child of God.  I was created for God's purpose.  None of us are accidents we are loved and valued.  Our children do not belong to us I once read.  God has blessed us with them for a short period of time to raise, love, and more importantly teach them the ways of the world.  But most of all he wants us as parents to teach them about Him, and to show them His undying love for us.


God loves us to DEATH!