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Your Brokenness is Beautiful

For awhile I have been pretty hard on myself and the way I look. I walk past the mirror to see how “fat” I am or to stare at my cellulite that feels like there is more of but there really isn’t. It’s all still there but my view of it has changed. Just yesterday I was on Instagram looking at a cute picture of  Emily Maynard Johnson, her husband, and someone had the audacity to comment and say and I quote; “You are both beautiful, inside and out…. and I hope you are hiding another baby bump! Maybe a little sister this time??” Emily’s response to this was so amazing! “no I’m just fatter than I was before I had 3 babies in 2.5 years. Also I’m 32 years old and no longer feel the need to be a size 0. Not pregnant. Just a little fatter than I was at 24 and I’m ok with that.” Why do we feel the need to be so ugly to ourselves and each other? I have accepted the fact that I…