You Are Worthy
I want you to know that you are beautiful and worthy.
Society has a way of knocking us down and dropping our self esteem lower and lower by telling us lies. It says you're too short, tall, fat, skinny, etc. You need to eat more but also you shouldn't eat too much because then you look bad.
Who cares about height? Nowhere does it say that short people are worth less than tall people or vice versa. So why does society care? You are beautiful and have just as much worth as everyone else whether you are short, tall, or somewhere in between. Height doesn't affect beauty and worth, and it shouldn't affect how you see yourself either.
Society is so incredibly picky about size. It is pointless. Where do people get the idea that your size and weight affect your worth? It doesn't. The fact that society thinks that any of these things define a person’s worth is appalling. There are so many things that society says about us that simply aren’t true.
The truth is: You aren't too anything.
The lie that society tells us, that I struggle with the most in is my size. I have spent the last ten years being put on and off of diets and being told that my size is disgusting. I developed an eating disorder about two years ago. Some of the people in my life that watched the story unfold were congratulating me for losing weight, because “That’s what was important.” I was refusing to eat to the point that if I had more than a certain number of calories in a day, I would have a panic attack.
However, I am incredibly thankful to the other people in my life, who saw what was happening and helped me to heal and create a healthier view on food. It took months to eat without extreme guilt and, to be honest, sometimes I still feel that guilt. I don’t always feel like I deserve food or that I need it. The truth is that food is good for me. I am a human and humans need food. There is nothing wrong with my body, and there is nothing wrong with me being okay with it. I have to try to speak these truths to myself everyday and, even though I do still sometimes struggle with believing them, I am in a much better place now that I am able to at least see them.
It is important to know that God loves us. He created each and every one of us with a purpose, knowing everything about how we would be. God doesn’t make mistakes and He certainly didn’t make a mistake when He made you and His plan for your life. Jesus died on a cross to save us. He gave His beautiful wholeness to fix our brokenness. If Jesus did not love us, He would not have done what He did for us. God doesn't agree with what society says about His people. We are fearfully and wonderfully made, not carelessly and worthlessly made. When I can’t find my worth for myself, I look to God to show me my worth. The creator of everything took His time to make me and love me with all that He is, and that shows me that I have a lot of worth. He did that with each and every single person, including you.
You are beautiful no matter how you look. It doesn't matter about your weight, height, shape, size, hair color, how you dress, nothing. None of that matters. Society says it does, but the truth is it doesn't. You are beautiful and I truly hope that you will be able to see that for yourself. It is my hope that you won’t let anyone or anything tell you differently. Lastly, the thing I like to rely on the most; if nobody else loves you or accepts you for you, know that God does!