Europe is absolutely beautiful! The places, the history, the people, everything about it is beautiful. Every single person here is tall and beautiful. Everyone looks like models, and well I don’t. I am on the thicker side of things and I am about 5’3”. I really didn’t think about it until I had 2 GIANT holes in my pants and needed to buy a new pair of pants. I looked everyday for about an hour or two for shops that even had my size for about a week. The biggest sizes I was finding was a 34-38, I wear a size 48. Great confident booster!
So I have always been pretty confident in who I am and how I look. There have definitely been seasons where I haven’t and I was feeling like I was entering into another season of that. It’s definitely an easy thing to do here. Everyone is tall, thin and absolutely gorgeous. People wear very nice clothes here and I look like I’m on the World Race. I couldn’t buy clothes even if I wanted because they didn’t have my size. I honestly haven’t felt so confident this month.
But then, on the way back from Hungary for the weekend, I was talking to some friends in the train cart about our lives after the race and making up how that would look for each other, naturally husbands got brought up. I thought about what I would like him to look like, my “type” if you will. My very first thought was, “It doesn’t matter as long as he loves the Lord”. I remembered that the same goes for me. Not saying I’m not beautiful, because I totally am, I meant just look at me (hair flip). What I’m trying to say is, beauty is more than height, weight, and clothes. We all know this but we forget sometimes.
God doesn’t make mistakes in forming who we are and what we look like and when people compliment that, they aren’t just complimenting you, they are also complimenting the one who created you. So be confident when people give you complements. If people aren’t giving you compliments then give yourself compliments because that’s you telling God he did a good job.
This is no revelation blog but it is powerful if you let it be.
You are awesome.
Awesome: breathtaking, amazing, stunning, astounding, astonishing, awe-inspiring, stupendous, staggering, extraordinary, incredible, unbelievable
Don’t ever let anyone tell you differently, not even yourself.
