You are Beautiful!

     You are beautiful!  I know those few simple words can put a smile on my face!  My husband tries to tell me that everyday and I just shrug and say " nope, I'm old and fat honey"  He tells me I'm still beautiful in his eyes.  How many of us have someone tell us we are beautiful and don't stop and listen?  How many times do we do exactly what I do and say no I'm not because...?  I do it all the time.  All of us deserve to hear that we are beautiful.  However, we need to listen and hear it.  Not come back with why we think we are not beautiful.
      Whose perception of beautiful do we want to truly have?  Heavenly Father loves each of us divinely just as we are. He created us in his image.  That has to be beautiful right?  I know his love is beautiful and his spirit so I'm sure his beauty is unimaginable. When we make justifications for us not being beautiful we are saying he isn't beautiful, after all  he created us in his image.  Ok are you really hearing me?  Please listen to me with your heart.
      When you truly know your beautiful you will learn to love yourself .  You are a beautiful person inside and out.  The Lord created you for a very special purpose.  Think about it like this; you are so and so's daughter, wife, mother, friend, boss, worker, and so on.  You are the only one who could fill this role in this world.  I have my own role to fill in the Lords world and could never fill yours.  We are all here to fulfill a certain purpose for him.  I myself have spent so many years trying to figure out my role here on earth.  I am 46 years old and finally have part of it figured out.
       I grew up with being told by so many that I was ugly, worthless and would never amount to anything in life.  I constantly would be mad and upset and feel ugly.  I however would get so angry and tell myself I was going to prove them wrong.  I finally have after all these years.  I am a beautiful mother to 8 beautiful souls.  I also am a Mama to so many more kids that I fostered and have loved in my home and community.  I do not have the perfect body but I now know that is okay because I have the perfect heart.  I can love with a pure heart.  I have learned to look past the heartaches and hug my child with in.  By doing this I am now able to love unconditionally.  The Lord knew I was the only person who could understand some of the kids he put in my life.  He also knew they where the only kids that could touch my heart and help me to see and find my heart and my purpose.  I no longer foster anymore but am still in contact with many of my kids.  I will always love them and be their Mama Cole.
      All of my experiences in life have helped me to see my own beautiful.  I am a mother, a wife and a beautiful daughter of our Heavenly Father.  What about you?