Wearing: A Flight of Birds

Blouse:  H/M (current)

Skirt:  J.Crew

Flats:  Steve Madden

Watch:  AE

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We live in a world that strongly dictates to us what beauty is. We inform our lives with self-help books, magazines, the praise or criticism of other people and the promises of our culture that tell us if we diet, we'll be skinny and accepted. If we buy an anti-aging cream we can smile without embarrassment of wrinkles. If we have 900 friends on Facebook we'll have finally arrived and found true significance. 

Women carry the weight of people's opinions. We internalized the labels culture inflicts on us, then as we impose those labels onto our reflection in the mirror all we can think is, I'm ugly. I'm inadequate. I'm unworthy of love. 

During the early years of our lives, we are being formed, but at some point, we have the responsibility to begin informing our lives by zeroing in on the unique, true beauty God placed within us and what we're going to do with the skill-set He gave us. 

This morning when I looked in the mirror, I could have focused on the bags under my eyes, the stretch-marks on my sides or what you might think of my outfit and naturally, I could've felt awful. But I chose instead to believe I am hand-crafted by God regardless of what I see or feel. 

The thing is...

I don't want to trudge through my days and allow culture to steal the wonder of who I was created to be.
I want to break free from the confines of a small life.
I want to soar.