My Journey on Loving Myself

This is not the first day of my journey to loving myself, but I want to become accountable and inspire others to go on this journey too.  So many people think this is all about eating well and exercise. It is so much more than that.
The thing is, whenever I go to love myself well, even just eating well and exercise, I get a panic that rises up and a defiance that causes and anger in me.  I feel like grabbing the first load of junk food I can and having a binge.

This is my journey.  I am being extremely vulnerable for you all that read it, so that I can walk through the process and track it as well as inspire you all who read it.
The first step is to take a deep breath, to look at myself in the mirror daily and tell myself the truth.  My daily declarations are simple:

                                      " I am beautiful."
                         " I am powerful."
                         " I am loved."
                          "I am wise."

I have been intentional about telling myself these truths everyday, it may seem that it doesn't go in, that it doesn't make a difference but the more you tell yourself the truth, the more you start to believe it, and the more you set free.

Please join me as I step out into this journey on intentionally loving myself well.

Grace and Love to Learn

There is more to life than the 'breath in, breath out' there is more to grace than covering sin.

What I have been learning is, that God's love isn't a feeling.  His grace isn't just to bring me to heaven.  Rather His love is all abiding, living, breathing and creating inside of me with every thought that I have and every way that I look, He is there ready to love me and never stopping.  God's love is LIFE.  Moreover His grace didn't just  cover my sin it is a part of  Love and I would long for people to understand that His love and grace are one and the same,  they are not separate   Just like Father, Son and Spirit are three but one, so is love and grace; two but one.

Here's what it looks like for me...

I have this habit of not loving myself well at times.

God's grace is ready to cover me so that I don't lose myself, time, hope and joy.  Then Love burns through me so that I can have the strength to carry on without guilt or shame.  When I start to look after myself well, then sabotage it God's grace comes in and tells me that I am not less for having flaws and His love shows me that no matter what, I am perfect.  I am His princess, His child, His love, the apple of His eye.  There have been times where He has stood by and let me learn alone, but His grace and love never leave, and when I am ready, Grace is ready to redeem.  Grace and Love never stop holding my hand, massaging my neck, whispering sweet truth in my ear.  But when I am ready to take note, they always up the game and bring more.

 His grace brings back 10 times what the enemy steals by lying to us, even if we sin by believing those lies, that's another reason Christ died.

I am glad I have Grace and Love that covers me as I learn.