Day 2 …Mom was Wrong!

Ok so I’m on day 2 of my journey. Day 2 is to reflect on ourselves. No matter how much we think life is meaningless or confused about life, we are not here by accident. My mother always told me that I wasn’t supposed to be born when I was. I wasn’t just a few weeks early but a few years. My mother had a set plan, when she’d get married, have kids, work etc., but as the old saying goes, while you’re making plans God is having a good laugh. When things don’t work out as you have planned, it’s because it just isn’t meant to be. This something many of us, including myself fail to realize. I always want things my way. I make plans and set schedules to accomplish my goals in life. I now realize that just because I have not achieved them doesn’t mean that I’m a failure, it just means that there is something bigger and better that I am going to do, I just don’t know it yet.
Day 2 also goes into looking at ourselves for who we are and appreciating it. Our personalities, the color of our eyes, hair, and skin have been designed specifically for us. This really caught my attention because many of us, especially women obsess about our looks; those with long noses want shorter petite ones, people with blue eyes buy contacts to have green eyes. We put so much emphasis, time and money into changing ourselves to be something we were not meant to be. We let one person; the media, society tell us that unless you are 5’11, 100 pounds with large double Ds and long flowing hair, you need to be fixed. I hate to be cheesy but if God wanted us to all look alike he would have made us that way.
I am not holier than thou, of course there have been times when I have wanted to change things about myself and even attempted to …. Funny enough they never worked out. God made me this way for a reason, who am I to tell Him He messed up? I look the way I do for a reason, if you don’t like it tough, I know I’m fine! For those of you who want a secular point of view here it is…. Look at those plastic looking people, fakes noses, fake boobs, fake everything…do you really want to look like that? You may actually beautiful and let your insecurities screw you up. The list of celebrities who were good looking but now are jacked up is a mile long….Meg Ryan, Elizabeth Taylor…and one in particular I will not mention out of respect but you know who else I’m talking about! Do you really want to go around looking like that? Is that real beauty? Like the song goes, "aint nothing like the real thing!"