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I just had my picture taken.  Really, no big deal, right?  I'm doing some audio recordings and thought, hey—let's take a picture and I'll put it on my Facebook page. (I'm trying to become social media savvy woman.)  So, a friend took two pictures.

 

Which I looked at and then deleted.  You're not going to see them.

 

(I look like that?  Bummer, man.)

 

I was not looking at myself through the eyes of Love.  My old lenses of self-contempt and rejection had snuck back on my face.  I didn't even realize it had happened.  They are a familiar fit.

 

Oh, come, Jesus.  I want to replace my out of date, cracked and unbecoming lenses with yours.  I want, no I need, to see myself through your eyes.  I choose to exchange my lenses of self-hatred with your lenses of mercy, truth, goodness, acceptance and love.

 

He says, "How beautiful you are, my Darling.  Your eyes are like doves."  How beautiful you are, my Darling.  I am his Darling.  He thinks I'm pretty!  I can feel my heart begin to rise even as I dare to receive this divine exchange!

 

Oh, to see ourselves only through the lenses of our God's love.  Yes and yes.  That's worth posting.  That's worth framing.  That's worth believing.

 

 

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About Stasi

Stasi Eldredge loves writing and speaking to women about the goodness of God. She spent her childhood years in Prairie Village, Kansas, for which she is truly grateful. Her family moved to Southern California back in the really bad smog days when she was ten. She loved theatre and acting and took a partiality to her now husband John...READ MORE

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