Inner Beauty

Dear Lord, help me to know that I am your beloved, created in your image. Help me to realize that you created me to be me, and no one else, and that I am irreplaceable and wonderful in your eyes. Your fingers fashioned me in my mother's womb: I am your treasure. Help me to see that beauty is something that you have placed within me. It's not something that I can put on or take off. I have to uncover it. Help me to know that my worth isn't based on what anyone thinks of me. Help me to believe that I have dignity, as your precious child, forever. And help me to always see the dignity in others, too. Amen. -Melissa