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I’ll start with an apology for not posting for a little while… Okay 2 months. The Girl In The Glass Slipper underwent an address change. So during the whole moving process I lost track of a lot of things. But I’m back for good! :) Okay, so what I want to talk to you about today is how beautiful you truly are.

Society today gives us a distorted view of beauty. Media pounds there definition of beautiful into our heads – on television, billboards, the internet, the newspaper, movies and books. Even in the school system – the head cheerleader tends to be what people consider the “prettiest girl in school”, she wins best smile and cutest couple with her jock boyfriend and we feel left behind. Forgotten. When in truth even the “prettiest” girls battle with who they are and whether or not they’re beautiful enough to be loved. I am a confident in myself and who I am, but there are days when I struggle with how I look. Like how my hair will not stop being frizzy and there’s a zit on my face the size of a baseball. But when I do that, I focus on what I’m not. To many times as teenagers and as adults we focus on what we are not and we “cannot” do. Outward beauty won’t last forever – think about it. When you’re sixty a lot of the things that you depended upon to “make you beautiful” aren’t gonna be there. It’s life. It’s reality. But inward beauty is forever. Who you are inside is everything because people will not remember you for what you looked like, they’ll remember you for the kind of person you were

To be beautiful to the world you must have a perfect figure, perfect skin, perfect hair – you can’t mess up. You can’t have bad hair days. And who cares about morals? Just as long as you’re beautiful. That’s not an exaggeration of what the world tells us. There’s a checklist to be beautiful. But it’s not true. It’s all a lie. And sadly, none of us figure that out until we’ve all ready fallen into the trap. The beauty advertisements make false promises. You know the foundation that makes that girl on the commercial look so gosh-darn gorgeous? Then when you spend you weeks allowance on it, it makes you face look orange? Yeah. I’ve been there. Lol  But to truly be beautiful (or should I say, to recognize the beauty that you all ready are) there are two things you must believe –
1. You have to be confident in yourself. You have to know that other people’s opinions of you DO NOT MATTER. Eleanor Roosevelt said “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Meaning – No one can make you feel of lower rank or less important or not as beautiful as someone else unless you believe them.
Have you seen the movie “Penelope”? If not, you have too simply cause it’s a great movie and I adore James McAvoy.  But it has a great message. The whole movie Penelope has been cursed with a pig snout. She tries a ton of different crazy things to get rid of it and nothing works. But in the end, the only thing it took for the pig snout to go away was for her to like herself just the way she was. At the end of the movie, she is talking to a bunch of children about Penelope’s story and ask them what they learned from the story and a little boy says “It’s not the power of the curse, it’s the power YOU give the curse.” And it’s true. If you believe the lie that says you have to do such-and-such to be beautiful, then in your own thinking you will have to do it before you believe that you’re beautiful.

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The second thing that makes you beautiful. I will be honest with you. I am a believer in Jesus Christ. I understand that there are some of you who have probably been hurt and abused by Christianity. I am sorry. The message of Christ was meant to be life-giving and too often people use it to beat people over the head to get them to behave. That is not Christianity. That’s bondage. If anyone would like to talk to me about this you can email me at - thegirlintheglassslipper@gmail.com
Anyway, God created you beautiful. He created you in his image – in his likeness. He made you a lovely and precious creation. The God of heaven loves you. Even if you don’t know it. Here are a couple Bible verses that talk about how he made you beautiful =

Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them…”

Psalm 139:13-14 “For You (God) created my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will praise you because I am fearfully and WONDERFULLY made. Your works are wonderful I know that full well.”

Ecclesiastes 3:11 “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end”

Psalm 45:11 “The King (Jesus) is enthralled by your beauty. Honor Him, for he is your Lord.”

Those are just a few of the many, many verses about how beautiful you are to God. He loves you more than any man ever could and ever will. When you can believe that, it will change everything. But know this, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL . If you have any questions or want to continue this particular topic, go ahead and email me at the address I posted earlier. All my love ~ The girl in the glass slipper.

Prince Charming...

Okay, so sometimes the guys who we think are Prince Charming end up being... not so charming. They hurt us, they act like jerks and we blame ourselves as if we did something wrong, regardless of who's fault it is. Trust me, I know. You know who I'm talking about, the boy who seems perfect and like he would never ever let you down... and then he does and we start the whole painful process all over again. In the society we live in, heartbreak runs rampant parading itself down the streets of our life and no matter how much try to stop it, we run into more problems than we can handle. Then we feel like Cinderella after the Ugly Step Sisters got a hold of her. Unfortunately, today love isn't valued like it should be, because it's been misrepresented so many times. But, whether you believe me or not, there is a perfect love. A love that casts out all fear. A love that will never, ever hurt us or break us or abuse us. A love that puts us before itself. A selfless love. I want to tell you about this kind of love in future messages. I have recieved some revelation on this kind of love and it blows me away. The next posts are going to be the truth about yourself and that no matter what anyone else thinks, you are precious.