Love life and Identity (4)
Father, you've created me in your beautiful image and likeness. In my heart, I know you love me, but I'm constantly confronted with the picture that society paints as beautiful. Help me to realized that you truly know each hair on my head, each gleam of light in my eyes, and every wrinkle when I smile. You mold me as a potter shapes a piece of clay, perfecting each part with your loving hands. I'm the child you envisioned I would be. I am perfect in your eyes, and each day you look upon me in love. Let me always remember that you've created me uniquely and beautifully. Help me to see you each day when I look in the mirror, and to realize that physical beauty is so small in comparison to the beauty of who I am. Amen. -Joan
Dear God, I don't know what's happening, but I need your help. I want to understand love, but all I can think about is sex. I don't want to be obsessed by it or afraid of it, but sometimes I feel like I'm both! Sex is supposed to be a gift for marriage, but I'm struggling to understand it now. I don't want to be immature about it, but I just don't know how to handle things: my feelings change, my attitudes change; I feel curious and then nervous and then guilty and then anxious. Please, God, just help me to live faithfully and with integrity, bringing my confusion to you with straightforward confidence in your all-powerful love for me. Guide me, Lord! Amen. -Juanita
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
Lord, I appreciate my relationship with family and friends, but lately, I feel kind of obsessed about finding "that special someone." I'm always searching for a special relationship, someone to go out with on the weekend, someone to call every night. Lord, help me to know that it's okay not to be dating right now. It's hard to feel like I'm alone when everyone else "has someone," but help me to feel secure in who I am. Help me to grow closer to you, Lord, and to enjoy the good things in my life. Thank you, Lord. Amen. -Daisy