I know I already posted today, but I just had to repost this. A future classmate of mine Katie Niemetta posted this earlier today and it BLEW ME AWAY. Its so easy in today's day and age to feel worthless. Girls today are so degraded on a daily basis that it sickens me. I being one of these girls constantly struggle with self worth and petty issues such as my appearance. It is something I am honestly day by day working on. Today reading this post just rocked my world. It is so true and I think it is something EVERY girl should read. Please read this and soak in what it has to say.

She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs with no fear of the
future. --Proverbs 31:25

I am a daughter of the King. A princess of the LORD of LORDS. Who dares tell me otherwise?
Sim

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST~ My desire for beauty to be revealed, and the Beast (Satan) trying to rob me of my right to feel lovely.
by Katie Niemetta on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 3:03pm


***Pretty much, I feel GOD is placing many things on my heart as I write this. Today I woke up and I felt the need and hunger today to crank up my iPod and put my Christian playlist on and open the pages of the book Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge. Every girl NEEDS to read this book by the way. I also flipped through Scripture trying to reveal the things GOD is literally has been whispering in my ear. My eyes suddenly opened up and I realized how really TICKED I truly am on the inside. I was expecting to be moved emotionally and feel all warm, fuzzy, and loving on the inside, instead I listened to my music and read all these word of being lovely, beautiful, and worthy and felt myself grow unbelievably ANGRY! I was greatly surprised by my reaction.***

Here is why:

I am sick of wanting to be wanted! I am tired of waiting patiently for beauty to be revealed to me. I am tired of waking up every morning, and staring at my bagel for breakfast and questioning if my thighs could really use those 240 calories. I am irritated by the fact, I cannot buy a shirt or nice pair of jeans without a giant strategically placed 10x12 advertisement of some half naked woman without having her size 0 butt and boobs in my face. I am also ENRAGED by how these images of women MUTILATE the minds of our men that we one day will be betrothed to. We will one day give our heart, mind and body to a man who is having his brain polluted by images of women who are not REAL. How does this make me feel beautiful? I don't want to wait any longer for God to shape and mold the man he has for me to marry any longer, I want my future perfect (which I do know does not exist, but I'm a hopeless romantic at heart) husband NOW! I want to be loved. I want to be told I am lovely. I want so badly down to my core to have a man of God hold me in his arms and have me be the only woman he ever sees. I want my husband not to see another woman...but only me. When I walk down the aisle on my wedding day, I want to be the only woman in the room in the eyes of my husband. I WANT TO BE CHERISHED, LOVED, AND WORTHY. I want to be fought for. I want this ADVENTUROUS, AMAZING, and FIERY romantic love story where I am TREASURED. Through all of this, I knew I could possibly not be the only female who thinks this way.


NOTE: If you cannot tell by the above, my mind was going 110 mph. So many thoughts at one time can be quite overwhelming!



...All these thoughts ran through my head, and I cried. I let the tears just pour out...


THEN THE LIGHTBULB WENT OFF!!!!


And it hit me, all these things I keep saying I want and made all about me were all ready here. In case you hadn't noticed, I started all my sentences with "I". Here I am, trying to take control again. GOD took care of all of that for me already. I am romanced by GOD every second of everyday. HE is my LOVER, HE wants to be my knight in shining armor. HE wants me to hold my arms open to HIM and HE cradles me, strokes my hair, and tells me I am lovely. We as women, are created in reflection of HIS beauty. When you view it that way, the 10 extra pounds I think I have to lose, and the hair on my head that falls flat after just an hour suddenly does not matter anymore. SIMPLY THIS- " A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy enough. She knows in her quiet center where GOD dwells that HE finds her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in HIM, she is enough". THAT IS AWESOME!





-------THESE WORDS CALMED MY SOUL AND REVEALED TO ME WHAT MY HEART ACHED FOR-------


1) The KING is enthralled by your beauty- (Psalm 45:11)

2) "The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate us...Beauty captivates the senses in order to obtain permission to pass straight through to the soul...The soul's inclination to love beauty is the trap God most frequently uses in order to win it."- Simone Weil

3) "Beauty may be the most powerful thing on Earth. Beauty speaks. Beauty invite. Beauty nourishes. Beauty comforts.Beauty inspires.Beauty is transcendent. Beauty draws us to God." pg. 133- Captivating


4) " The essence of a woman is Beauty. She is meant to be the incarnation- our experience in human form- of a Captivating God. A God who invites us." pg. 132- Captivating

5) I want to be beautiful
Make you stand in awe
Look inside my heart,and be amazed
I want to hear you say
Who I am is quite enough
Just want to be worthy of love
And beautiful
- Beautiful by Bethany Dillon


6) Mirror I am seeing a new reflection
I'm looking into the eyes of He who made me
And to Him I have beauty beyond compare
I know He defines me
- Mirror by Barlow Girl

















7) So I will dance with Cinderella
While she is here in my arms
'Cause I know something the prince never knew
Oh, I will dance with Cinderella
I don't want to miss even one song
'Cause all too soon the clock will strike midnight
And she'll be gone
- Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman

8) Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. - (Proverbs 31:30)


9) " So then yo can see that when we speak about the essence of a woman- her beauty- we don't mean "the perfect figure". The beauty of a woman is first a soulish beauty. The beauty of a woman is first a soulful beauty." pg. 132 -Capivating

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..these words spoke the most to me. Trust me, you will want to download this one.

















Beautiful Ending

















BarlowGirl - Beautiful Ending From the album Love And War

Oh tragedy has taken so many

Love lost cause they all forgot who You were

And it scares me to think that I would choose my life over You

Oh my selfish heart divides me from You,

it tears us apart So tell me What is our ending?

Will it be beautiful, so beautiful?

Oh how do I let myself let go

Of hands that painted the stars and hold tears that fall?

And the pride of my heart makes me forget it's not me

I'm lost without you and you're dying for me

So tell me What is our ending?

Will it be beautiful, so beautiful?

Will my life Find me by Your side?

Your love is beautiful, so beautiful

So tell me What is our ending?

Will it be beautiful, so beautiful?

Will my life Find me by Your side?

Your love is beautiful, so beautiful



I want so desperately to share my thoughts and struggles with other women who battle the same thoughts and feelings as I do. We are not alone. We are loved so passionately by the GREAT ROMANCER, GOD himself. I pray for you, and I pray that you will know how so very beautiful, lovely, and unique you are.

THE GOD ALMIGHTY created you, how can you not be beautiful?