dailydatewithgod

I love flowers! Their beauty is so gentle.  It seems at times that flowers are like a soft kiss to the world.  The way that the fragile petals reach out to the world and the variety of colors and shapes and sizes–amazing!  I love roses, probably one of my favorites, perhaps because they speak to me of classic beauty.  Like one of those actresses from the 1940s–Hepburn, Stanwyck, Garbo, etc.  All they had to do was just stand their and their beauty and strength filled a room.  The best thing about flowers though is their variety!  The funny part is that I do not translate that into my life. I am sure I am not alone in this but I have spent a fair amount of time comparing myself to others.  You name it and I am either less than or occasionally better than any woman on the planet.  I compare my body size and shape, the color and style of my hair, clothing, attitude, attraction of men, job, family, car, laughter. . .the list is endless.  I forget that if God wanted me to be her, whomever she is, I would be her.  Wanting to not be my variety and demonstration of God is a bit like a slap in the face to God. As though I were a consultant hired by God and I am advising him that actually, he really should have done this part of me differently so it would be more like her part.  Yes, I can be bold, even when I don’t intend to be.  As much as I love roses, I would never look at an Easter lily with its gentle perfume and gracious open petals and say, “You need to curl up more like a rose and grow some thorns.” That would be ridiculous, right?  So why do I look at another woman’s body and tell myself that I should have a body more like hers?  It doesn’ t make any more sense.  The beauty that I am is the beauty that God wished to bestow upon the world.  If he wanted to duplicate one that was already there, he would have.  I have to trust that I am a unique expression of God in every way.  In my physicality, attitude, actions, emotions; every cell in my body is designed with perfection and love.  It speaks to the variety and the vastness of the greatness of God.  How do you see who you are as part of the variety of the world?  My prayer for you today is that you may truly recognize in your heart that you (all of you–warts and all, as they say) are part of the variety of the world.  The Creator of all creations created you out of love, every part of you.  For when you know that in your heart you will begin to see the beauty of the variety of the world that surrounds you.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

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