BeautyFull

There may come a day when you will try to fit the mold and conform.  You might want to dress just like your friends.  Somebody might tell you that rubber boots are only for rainy days or tutus are for ballerinas only or white is not to be worn after labor day.  You may someday read in a magazine that your favorite color, pink polkadots, is "so yesterday" and shove your favorites to the back of the closet.  Somebody someday may try to make you feel less pretty in order to make themselves feel better.  When that happens I hope you know that you are beautiful...BeautyFull...as in full of beauty...and beautiful is not about what you wear.  Beautiful is about how you act and feel...it's confidence knowing you ROCK the pink polkadot-rubber-boots-on-the-wrong-feet-on-a-sunny-day look!  Beautiful is helping others feel pretty. Beautiful is a smile on your face and kindness in your heart. Beautiful is knowing what you love and seeking it out, or making it happen.  Beautiful is being true to who you are and the person God created.

There is nobody else who can rock the pink-polkadot-backwards-rubber-boots-on-a-sunny-day-look better than you because there is only one you!

And lastly, but not leastly, IF someday, you do choose to ditch the boots and/or the polkadots, I hope it's because you have found something that speaks to you and who you are even more, and NOT because someone made fun of you or a magazine told you it was out of style.

"What matters is not your outer appearance—the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes—but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in."  ~1 Peter 3:3-4

"You're amazing just the way you are" ~ Bruno Mars