Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

I Like Who I Am

March 12, 2013

Wait – did I really just say that??!! Yes, yes, I believe I did. Yes. And it only took 50 years to say it! Well, okay – maybe 40 – but still…you get what I am talking about.

I was chatting with Matt the other night and those words popped out and I was sincere and truly believed them for the first time in my life. You see all my life I have wanted to be anyone other than me. Even trying to be like other people so they’d like me. Or I could be like them because I hated myself so much. But it never worked and never will. I had to finally come to accept me as I am – God does. I thought about that fact weeks ago – God loves me unconditionally just as I am. Not to say there isn’t room for improvement but together we’re working on it. But who I am – the essence of me – he loves me and I should love myself because He does. It was an incredible revelation to say it out loud – I like who I am – and I kept saying it my head for a full two days afterwards – I like who I am. There’s no one I’d rather be than me. :-)

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On March 12, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Val said:

Good for you! :-)

On March 25, 2013 at 8:37 PM, java_queen said:

Thanks :-)

On March 12, 2013 at 6:48 PM, dxprog said:

A relevant article I stumbled across this morning: http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/spocks-advice-to-a-teenage-girl-will-make-you-cry .
Granted, this was aimed more at racial issues, but applies even still.

On March 25, 2013 at 8:37 PM, java_queen said:

This was excellent! Thank you so much for sharing!! I really need to copy that off - it would be a good read for the younger ones too.

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