Beautiful

Little girl, 14 flipping through a magazine
says she wants to look that way.
But her hair isn't straight, her body isn't fake
and she's always felt overweight....

A little while ago, I walked by a mirror and looked at myself for a minute. Hey, my hair doesn't look too bad today... In fact it even looks good. Actually, you know what? I look pretty good today.

Then I really started thinking. Who decided what beautiful is? Why, when flipping through a magazine, are all the models white, have perfect skin and ridiculously skinny? Who decided that a girl is only beautiful when she's wearing makeup and everything about her is "perfect"? Why are lies of what is "beautiful" so easily spread?

Fact is, God created girls, all girls beautiful. Every single one of 'em. Life isn't a beauty competition. Cuz, if it were, no one would win. Girls on billboards are so photo shopped they look nothing like their original selves. Oh, and Barbie with her prized skinny, yet curvy body? In order to get all her proportions right, she'd have to be seven feet tall. Maybe she'd be "pretty" but she'd also be a freak.


Don't buy the lies, disguises and hoops, they make you jump through
You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do
So there could never be a more beautiful you

Probably the coolest thing is how God sees girls.
Tomorrow she'll be turning 17
But somehow now the mirror has become her enemy
Feelin like she'll never measure up
Feelin like she'll never be enough

In her Father's eyes, he is taken by her beauty
And captivated by her every time
In her Father's eyes, he is longing just to tell her
She's never been more lovely in her life


God created girls. We're beautiful. If we defy that, we call God a liar when He looked at all that He had made and saw that it was good. God doesn't create ugly people. Check out
Song of Songs 4:1a, "How beautiful you are my darling, oh how beautiful." 7 "You are altogether beautiful my darling, there is no flaw in you." 9 "You have stolen my heart, my treasure, my bride..."



girl, you're amazing, just the way you are.