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You Are You And You Are Mine

A Memoir of How We View Ourselves Versus How God Views Us

Madysen Alyese Luzzo
Sep 12, 2016
Faulkner University
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A young girl looked in the mirror and said to herself "I am me and I am beautiful"

She then went to school and saw one of the popular girls and said "She is beautiful and I want to be like her"

So the young girl started hanging out with the popular girl and her friends. She slowly started to do what they were doing and started to stop eating or even throw up what she ate, because the girls said, "This is what we do to make us feel beautiful." The girl knew that wasn't right, but did it anyways because she wanted to be just like them. She then turned into a totally new girl and left everything she was told about self-respect and self-worth and threw it out the window.

One day, her mom made her go back to church. A place she hadn't been in quite sometime. The love that her church family showed her and the worry they had for her since she had been gone for quite sometime, was so incredible. She finally felt the beauty that she had been looking for from the ones that loved her the most. Now she said, "I am me and I am beautiful."

But in reality, the Lord was saying the whole time, "You are you and you are mine."


No matter what we're going through, the Lord will never leave us and will always call us His.

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