Handcrafted Original

 

 

Somewhere in time, this week, I have been working on a short story about a young girl.  My story is fiction and intended to be light hearted, but it made me think how hard it is to grow up in this day and age. It’s hard to fit it. It’s hard to be accepted.  Kids that are a little different are sometimes ostracized and laughed at. If that’s not bad enough, we are sometimes our own worst enemy.  How many times does a young person look in the mirror and think God made a mistake?

We believe God messed up when he didn’t make us taller or shorter, thinner or heavier or less prone to blemishes.  We think God messed up when our hair color is not what we want, or our nose it not shaped as need.  What about our ears, are they big, do they stick out?  We look in the mirror and see imperfections and assume God made a mistake.

Mirrors lie. They show the outside, but not the inside.  A generous heart, a loving spirit and an active inquisitive mind, these are not reflected in the mirror.

We’re wrong.  We are a hand crafted original.  God doesn’t make mistakes. He formed us exactly like he wants us to be. What our problem is, we expect the mirror to reflect the cultural norm of beauty.  This cultural norm of beauty is too limited.  God’s view of beauty encompasses all types of diversity.  He doesn’t make copies, he makes originals.

Psalm 139:13 -16 (NKJV) “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.  My frame was not hidden from You. When I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written. The days fashioned for me. When as yet there were none of them.”

If God made us and knit us together in our mother’s womb before we were ever born, we must be something special.  We are a handcrafted original made in the image of God. 

 

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