Beauty Marks

     I had a few extra minutes with the mirror this morning.  I noticed my beauty marks once again-- beauty marks I haven’t paid attention to in a long time.  I forgot I even carried them. Funny. 
      I like my beauty marks.  They make me—me—different from anyone else.   
My son has one on his leg and I tell him “Your wife is going to think that is soo adorable about you one day.  You’re so unique.”  Marks of beauty and richness are not merely given to the rich and famous.
      Have you forgotten the beauty marks God gave you? Have you forgotten how very beautiful you are?  For instance, not only the physical beauty marks you possess, but the beauty marks you leave behind in the ministry you work in?  Beauty marks of how you touch people’s lives with your warmth and concern?  Beauty marks of how you care and do for others the way no one else may?  You may be even unaware you carry beauty marks of other giftings and talents yet to be discovered.
     God made you beautiful from the start—from the inside and the skin level on out.
Hey, beautiful You…I love your beauty marks!

“You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.  You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.  You saw me before I was born.  Every day of my life was recorded in your book.  Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.  How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.” 
~Psalm 139:13-17 NLT

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