You Are Beautiful

Dear Daughters,

You are beautiful. You are completely and absolutely beautiful in every way. And I never want a day to go by where you don't hear that. And I never want you to doubt that. I want you to hear it often and know it deeply. Because the older you get the less you hear it and the harder it is to believe. So we want you to be equipped to face that and grow up without wondering if you are beautiful.

The world will throw all sorts of conditions on beauty and qualifications for beauty and false definitions of beauty your way. Don't fall for any of it. You are beautiful because God created you. You are beautiful because you are you. 

When I look at you, the foolishness of my own insecurities is revealed. I look at you and I am stunned. Your beauty points to the One who created you, the One who saw you and formed you and made you exactly how you were supposed to be. Every part of you was created on purpose. You were fearfully and wonderfully made. 

You are beautiful. May you embrace that truth and allow it to sink in. May it help you view others as beautiful, fearfully and wonderfully made by God as well. May your confidence be built on having a Creator who intentionally made you uniquely you. 

Continually Learning This Myself,
Mama

"For you formed my inward parts;
     you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
      my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
      intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
      the days that were formed for me,
      when as yet there was none of them."
{Psalm 139: 13-16}