Beautiful For Me

Nicole Nordeman shares an amazing truth in this song.

It is so wonderful that there are Christian artists who are working to support young kids (and "big" kids) in telling all that YOU are beautiful in God's eyes.
He created you, and made you just the way you are.
I love the line that says, "You should have seen me smile the day that I made you."
We each have our own purpose that He made us for, and when we fulfill that, He is honored and glorified.

The cartoon clips in this video are from Veggie Tale's Sweet pea Beauty, their semi-equivalent to Disney's Snow White, but with a Biblical twist of truth in the underlying plot.

"Has anybody told you, you're beautiful?"

Cinderella

You know those moments when you feel insignificant as a dust speck?
I'm instantly reminded of the Calvin and Hobbes comic by Bill Waterson.
One of my favorite strips is this one:

Calvin here is portraying his own personal feelings of being unimportant and inconsequential to the universe. His second comment shows how even this young, spunky, trouble-maker of a child is able to see how small he is in comparison to everything else.

We often struggle with these same ideas: believing that we make no difference on our planet, that the world would be the same- better even without our presence.

Though our size in comparison with the world is like an ant to a giant, God says that we matter to Him.

David says in Psalm 139, "It was You who created my inner parts; You knit me together in my mothers womb. I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and that my soul knows right well." God has created us for a purpose, and we are important to Him.

He has taken us, when we were like deaf and dumb sheep, and made us His. 

He changed our facade, and has made us Kings and Priests. I am now royalty in His eyes, because He has done a good work in me. He no longer views me as a mindless drone, wandering about the desert, straying farther away from the source of water that I need. 

I am a beloved Princess, the apple of His eye.