I Am Beautiful Because.....

It has come to my attention that there are many of us who feel, well, less than perfect. An impossible feat to achieve but, still, we try. It's been a bad week. And not just for me. Something dirty is in the air making us feel that we are worthless, ugly failures and ruining our perceptions of ourselves.

The other day, while running, I remembered something that I did in college. I started a journal. Not just any journal, but one in which I wrote, every day, something that was beautiful about me. Every entry started with "I am beautiful because....." It was hard at first because I was thinking about the physical. It started out with things like, "I am beautiful because I have nice eyes." Ugh. This was hard. Then it started to be more about the inside and who I was as a person. And let me tell you, it helped. Immensely!

And so, I'm going to start doing this again. It may seem cheesy but right now it's something I need. I'm way to good at being hard on myself. And by doing this I'm hoping there will come a day that I will believe these things that I have written about myself. To see myself as my Father in Heaven, and the people who love and care about me, see me.