Dear Girls,

Sisters. Maybe one day daughters and granddaughters.

To those cooing with pink bows in your hair, sucking on your tiny little fingers, and those just old enough to watch the TV and remember girls dressed in pink waving "my vagina, my choice" signs in the world behind the screen.

I just want you to know...

Don't feel like you have to let anyone touch you.

They don't have to.

Don't feel ashamed of who you are when men tear you with their sharp, unwavering eyes at gas stations, supermarkets, and even at the post office.

Don't blush when you're too weak to carry your groceries, and don't flush when you're so strong you can carry as much as you want.

Don't ever want to be a boy--not because boys are anything less--but because you're made just how God chose: a girl.

Don't feel like you have to stop reading this because your friends don't believe in God.

You don't have to listen to people when they tell you you're not worth anything. So why do you have to fear your friends when they say you are?

Just...

Keep reading.

There are going to be days when you look at yourself and hate everything that looks back.

You'll hate your skin.

Your tummy, your neck.

Your hair.

Your mouth.

Hands, eyes, fingers.

Yet imagine a God, Who created everything making you.

He chose to bring you--you--into the world, and you are created in His image. If He wanted you to be a boy, what would have stopped him?

But no, He chose you to be a girl. He chose you to even exist.

Awe, God.

Well, girl, now you're born and now you have a uterus.

Yeah, you've seen some sharpie drawing of one on a poster at the rally. It must be something special.

Well, it is.

And if God ever chooses to put a baby in it, just remember that you were God's choice.

He chose to bless your mother's womb

Girls,

Sisters. Maybe one day daughters and granddaughters.

You are alive because God chose to create you.

In His image.

You are God's choice.

And if God chooses to create life in you.

How blessed you are.

Do feel like you want to wave signs in a park if someone wants to take that life away.

But please, whatever you do,

Don't be waving a sign because you want to extinguish that life yourself.

Simply because it's in you.

You are God's choice. And He makes no mistakes.

He made you a girl.

You are alive because God chose to create you.

In His image.

You are God's choice.

And if God chooses to create life in you.

How blessed you are.

Do feel like you want to wave signs in a park if someone wants to take that life away.

But please, whatever you do,

Don't be waving a sign because you want to extinguish that life yourself.

Simply because it's in you.

You are God's choice. And He makes no mistakes.

He made you a girl.

You are God's choice.

You are a girl.

You are God's choice.

God's choice.

God's choice.

Girl.