i’m actually really beautiful.

this is a sentence that a year ago, a couple months ago even, you would not have caught me dead saying about myself. something i still often time don’t even really know if i fully believe. im currently sitting here writing this after looking at myself in the mirror thinking about how much i don’t like the way i look this morning. after trying on every article of clothing i have in my little world race closet, and not feeling comfortable in a single one. but even through all this, the statement still rings true!!! 

why is it so much easier to look at the mountains and proclaim their beauty? or at the butterflies? or at the sunset or the clouds or the ocean or the stars? were we not each created by the same perfect Creator?

or why is it easier to see beauty in the people that surround us? the people we see on tv or on social media or people we pass on the street? and why, when we decide that one person is beautiful, are we so quick to compare? so quick to decide that since they are beautiful, and we don’t look alike, that must mean i’m not? 

do the mountains look like the stars? no, but are they not both still beautiful? or do the flowers look like the ocean? no, but are they not both beautiful? does everything in creation not reflect the beauty of the Father? and are each of us not created by Him? knit together in our mothers’ wombs by Him? created fearfully and wonderfully, with great attention to detail? does He not know the number of hairs on our head? 

if all of these things are true, why then is it so hard to call ourselves beautiful? why when our hair is a mess, or when our skin is not perfectly clear, or when we simply aren’t feeling the beauty today, do we start to diminish our beauty? to diminish our value? 

one persons beauty doesn’t take away from another’s, so let’s shut down the comparison culture!!! and what the Lord says about us is true! He says that we are His beautiful creation. we are made in His image. He looks at each of us with delight. He radiates from within us. so why would we not walk and live as if this is true? 

and whats even cooler? that this beauty is not only true of your outward appearance, but of your character as well!! we are made in His image, so we carry His character. we are designed to be a reflection of the Father. of the Father’s heart. the Spirit is alive within us, and so when we walk in the Spirit, that radiates and overflows from within us into everything we do and say and in the way that we walk. 

how great a gift this is!! how great it is to be loved by Him!! how great it is that He is alive & living within us!!

thank God that my beauty doesn’t depend on how i’m feeling. that it doesn’t depend on me feeling great about myself. that i’m beautiful because He says i am! that i’m beautiful because i was made in the image of a beautiful Father!  

comment a lil something you love about yourself!! an area in which you see the Father’s beauty reflected in you! His character reflected in you!! 

all the love

<3 

reagan