you are beautiful

you are: loved. created. wanted. special. i'm a young woman who loves God and wants to show others [especially other young women] how truely amazing they are. I want to show that everyone has struggles and that no one is absolutely alone in this world. Here is a different view of those issues. any questions? need advice? don't agree? just ask me :)

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you, my dear friends, are so much more than what you have done or what has been done to you. You are not tainted or dirty or unloveable. You are not defined by your actions. It doesn't matter who you are or what you have done.

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Jesus died for your sin AND your shame.

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My dear friends,

I hope that you all have friends you can fellowship with. Friends that you can laugh and eat food with. where you can gather anywhere at any time and feel love. feel love without anything being said, because you know that their love is unconditional. if you don't have these friends, I encourage you to find at least one. One person who you can be vulnerable with and trust. Because when you are vulnerable, you are able to feel so much more. And I know this is rough. You say "I can't trust anyone" or "I've been hurt too many times by friends" or "I don't know anyone who would be a 'good' friend". And it is. It's unfortunate that humans are so broken and have hurt us so much, but in the end being vulnerable with someone is fantastic. And finding this friend probably will not happen over night. It might take a couple months or a couple of years. But it is worth the investment. If you have any questions, just ask me. good luck on this friendship journey. youarebeautiful.

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As the lily among the thorns, so is my darling among the daughters.

-song of solomon 2:2

"He can make a lily grow among thorns till the thorns grow into lilies. Remember how it is written, "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." He can set a Christian in a godless family till first one and then another shall feel the divine power, and shall say, "We will go with you, for we perceive that God is with you." It cannot happen in nature, but it does happen in grace perpetually, that the sweet perfume of the lily believer, shed abroad upon the thorn-bush of the ungodly, turns it into a lily-garden. Such holy work among ungodly people is the truest and best "FLOWER MISSION." They do well who give flowers to cheer the poor in their dreary habitations, but they do better still who are themselves flowers in the places where they live.

Be lilies, my dear brethren, preach by your actions, preach by your kindness, and by your love; and I feel quite sure that your influence will be a power for good. If the Holy Spirit helps all of you to stand among your associates as lilies among the thorns, the day will come when thorns will die out, and lilies will spring up on every side: sin will be banished, and grace will abound."

-c. h. spurgeon

my sisters [and brothers]. we are lillies. spurgeon gives a different twist to what i have always seen the meaning of this verse to be

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So this was God in relationship? It was beautiful and so appealing. He knew that it didn't matter whose fault it was- the mess from some bowl that had been broken, the planned dish would not be shared. Obviously, what was truly important here was the love they had for one another and the fullness it brought them.

The Shack, Page 107.

sometimes we stray from the path. sometimes we disobey. but God still loves us and keeps moving forward. He loves us so much.

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you are beautiful. you are loved. you are so incredibly precious. this post says it all.

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you're beautiful.

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do you know as many ways to please God as do your significant other?

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worth.

A well-known speaker started his seminar by holding up a $20 bill in a room of 200 people.

He asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?"

Hands started going up.

He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this", and he proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill.

He then asked, "Who still wants it?"

Still the hands were up in the air.

"Well", he replied, "What if I do this?" and he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.  He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.

"Now, who still wants it?"

Still the hands went into the air.

"How come you still want it?" he asked.

"It's still worth $20", came the answer.

"Then, my friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson", said the speaker, "No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value.  It's still worth $20."

"Many times in our lives" he continued, "We are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.  We feel as though we are worthless."

"But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.  Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless."

you have worth.

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i want to hear your thoughts about life and what is going on in yours. and what you want to read about on here.

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soulmate: there is no such thing as a soulmate aka. someone who will fulfill all your needs and match your hearts needs. you know what. if there is one, God would use all of his power to keep him as far away as possible. because god wants you for his own and he is a jealous god :)

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love.

in today's society and culture we say "i love ____" in a very nonchalant kind of way. lately i've been thinking about love. what it means to love, what it means to be loved, and what love means. in the english language we really only have one word for love, with different levels of meaning. but other lanuages, especially the biblical languages of greek and hebrew have several "different levels". 

phillia [greek]- friendship or brotherly love. having a loyalty to family or friends. this is the way we love our friends. our companions. when we enjoy having a friendship and we love our friends.

ryha [hebrew]- friendship.  some people say this is like the love of a best friend or a soulmate. someone who you feel comfortable disclosing to. in order to love someone with this kind of love, a trust must be developed in this friendship.both ryha and phillia love are strongly connected with emotions.

storge [greek]- affection, as in parental or familial.  when a parent feels love toward their offspring. when someone says something like "it is out of love." this is the kind of love they are speaking of.

ahava [hebrew]- love of commitment, dedicating oneself to someone.  this is a life commitment kind of love, found at a wedding and through marriage.

dod/eros [both]- sexual love. it's not called making love for no reason.

agape [greek]- unconditional love. selfless love to serve one another. this is the kind of love described in the "love chapter" in first corinthians. this is the way God loves us. no strings attatched. "for God so loved (agape) the world, that He gave his only begotten son." this is the way i want to love. as God loves.

but we need to have all these kind of loves. we have the capacity to love in all these ways and be loved in all these ways. learn to love. we have been convicted to love.

how do you love? who do you love? and why do you love?

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beauty.

my cousin is gorgeous. she is stunning. she is beautiful.

a friend of mine was describing her, and said that my cousin was the epitimy of beautiful: tall (5'8), super skinny, blonde hair, blue eyes, could be a holister model.

now, my cousin is beautiful, but do those things make her beautiful? are those the things that define beauty?

apparently so. our society is so skewed in its thinking. but those things do not define beauty. every human being is beautiful.

i challenge you to find beauty. every person you come in contact with, tell them what you find beautiful about them. it makes you a hundred times more beautiful. and it will bring them joy, let them radiate for a bit it will make them feel more beautiful. because they are so incredibly beautiful. people are beautiful.

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we are a product of our environment.

do not EVER tell your eight year old daughter that she needs to watch her intake of carbohydrates and sugar. i would like to punch all those controlling mothers who “encourage” lessening intake of food and counting calorie. it screams eating disorders.

i have seen girls as young as eight years old with eating disorders.

they say 1 out of 10 girls has an eating disorder.

but at least 7 out of 26 girls on my dorm floor freshman year at a christian university had an eating disorder

this is my passion. this is my heart. all girls need to know that THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL.

actually, don't tell anyone that their beauty is dependent on how much they eat or how much they weigh.

instead, administer compliments.

compliments are becoming of a person. affirming another person makes you human. makes you beautiful. your beauty from within shines out.

remember every human being is beautiful. always.

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