Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2013

HE DOESN'T SEE YOUR STAINS.





MY SELF-WORTH CANNOT BE TAKEN AT FACE VALUE


Who I am today is a reflection of how I was raised and how my childhood experiences taught me to take delight in the different flaws that make people who they are. We are all swimming in a mud hole of stains, splashing around in abnormal patterns that morph us into magical works of strange but attractive beings. Do we sometimes have trouble getting bogged down in the mire of misperception?

Saturday, January 19, 2013

He loves me...He loves me not?(The Ugly Truth)


The word ugly was first used in popular English Literature sometime before 1050. My grandmother used the word all the time when she caught me being too mean to people. Standing at about five feet tall, she walked up to me and said with a small, shaky voice,"now baby, don’t be ugly.” 

Webster's dictionary defines ugly as something that is contrary to beauty or offensive to sight.

UGLY?

Do you remember a time when someone called you ugly? This is a word that is commonly used to describe feelings of disgust over a particular person place or thing. We all have experiences when it comes to how we look at ourselves and others. I can speak from personal experience about this. I have two big ears and one crooked nose and this can add up to one big zero for self-confidence. This was a challenge for me growing up, especially when trying to get through high school. So it was during this time I began to ask myself a question. Was I wonderfully and fearfully created in the image of God? 
Now I had turned myself into an ugly creation who doubted the design of a loving creator.