This is You!

The Greatest Showman has this song in the movie.  “This is me!”  Every time I listen to it, it inspires me. Words…“But, I won’t let them break me down to dust. I know that there’s a place for us. For we are glorious.” It hits my heart.

We are made in God’s image.  Gloriously made, ALL of us.   Do you ever wish that you could look like someone else?  Longer legs, or taller, shorter, lighter hair, darker hair, different color eyes.  We are gloriously made. This is you and me. 

God made us, and we are glorious.  You are beautiful, no matter what you look like.  You were wonderfully made.  “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Psalm 139:14 | NIV

Especially in a society where beauty is everything, I want you to know that you are beautiful.  Stand up, head up, and yell back to the world, “THIS IS ME, I AM BEAUTIFUL.”

It is not vanity.  It is truth.  It is not boastful.  It is what the Bible says.  It is not prideful. It is allowing ourselves to see what God made. This is us!

We could have been brought up with the mindset that you have to look a certain way in order to be called beautiful.  Maybe someone, when you were a child, called you ugly, or too something, plain, or whatever it may be.

I want you to remember that you are beautiful.  It has taken me a LONG time to get there.  I call myself a work in progress.  God is still working in me.  This is me.

I too had the mindset that I had to look a certain way to be beautiful.  Family members in my life telling me that if I did this, or lost that, I would be prettier.    God made me.  This is me!

“You have to have this shape or be this size to be beautiful.  Maybe your nose needs to be a little smaller, lips a little fuller.  You have too high of a forehead.”  ALL Lies that we need to stop believing and we need to stop telling other.

There is someone that I know who doesn’t consider herself beautiful.  She is beautiful.  Not only is she beautiful on the outside, but she is beautiful on the inside.  I have known her for a long time, almost thirty years. 

The word beautiful used to make her uncomfortable, probably still does. She said that I had to say that because I was her friend.  I would laugh, and tell her nope, I don’t have too.

Here is the thing, I don’t have too.  I want to tell her, remind her, because she is.   She is my best friend, yes, but the truth is still the same. 

I want her to believe the value of herself.  Beautiful because of who she is in this world. It goes for you too.  This is you. You are beautiful. 

There are many of those around us that feel like they don’t look like a celebrity or they wish they could change something.  Maybe, they, like my friend, were brought up to think that they must be a certain way to be considered beautiful. 

My prayer for each of you reading this is that you realize your beauty.  You are glorious, and you know what, God loves you.  I want to tell you, with or without your scars, birthmarks, stretch marks, or whatever, you are beautiful.  The beauty is you.

God created you on purpose with love.  He formed you while you were in your mother’s womb.  “You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” Psalm 139:13 ~ NIV.    God knitted us together.  He formed us.

The green eyes, and brown hair, this is me.  Black hair, white hair, brown hair, red hair, blonde hair, that is you.  Brown eyes, blue eyes, hazel eyes, that is you.  God designed you. Be beautiful

A friend of mine is taking an Anatomy and Physiology class.  She has these tests on the muscles, bones, tendons, joints, ligaments, and all the things that make up the body. There is a lot.  It is mind filling what she must remember.

You can’t persuade me that our bodies happened by chance.  God designed each tendon, each muscle, each bone.  His fingers fashioned our rib cage.  When you go into the depths of us, there is so much complexity.  This is us.

I Googled, we have 206 bones in our skeleton, with 106 in hands & feet joined by ligaments. 640 muscles in our bodies.  Don’t get me started on the DNA and genetics, it is a lot.   No one is plain or simple.  We are complex beautiful people.

I am not saying that we must be vain.  I am saying that we need to know our worth.  God made us.  This is us.

Spread this truth. 

Laura Maxson