Today...

So it's been a whole summer since I've posted. Last I posted, I was unsure about what the summer would bring, I was sad to leave my friends, had long hair, and was afraid of kids. Well...a lot has changed.

This summer was an amazing, to say the least. I learned so much about God and about myself. I learned patience. There were some days when I wanted to scream or punch somebody, but those were also the times when I learned to rely on God. Rely on Him that he would give me the patience. There were so many times I had to choose to have a good attitude.

God also taught me a lot about beauty. So many times I felt like I needed a boy telling me I was beautiful to assure me that I really was beautiful and loved. Sometimes I would look in the mirror and not be happy with what I saw. But this summer I learned that God created me to be beautiful. He loves in spite of the mistakes that I've made. He made me just the way He wanted to. I can be confident in that because he's the one that made me. So..in learning this, I decided to shave my head. Yes, that's right. I have an inch of hair now. Because I'm beautiful with long or short hair. God made me beautiful. It's not so much of what's on the outside that matters..it's what's on the inside. Man looks at the outward appearance but the Lord looks at the heart. In cutting my hair, I feel so much better about myself. I feel like I'm really me. That sounds kind of cheesy, but I'm finding myself as a woman of God..or at least, I'm striving to be one.

He made me more beautiful than the prettiest sunset you've ever seen...because He made me in His image.