Learning to Love..

It's been said that you can never truly love others to the fullest until you first love yourself to the fullest. This has been hard for me to do... I'm the one who is always hard on herself and is never happy with what I've been given. I always think things could be better about me and have a hard, hard time just loving myself...The verse says "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." So if I'm constantly picking at myself and trying to find things to improve because I'm never quite satisfied, how can I possilbly not be doing that to others? And how I can ever really be happy and how can I ever truly love others if I'm always so negative towards myself??

So..here's something I wrote to myself and thought I would share.. =)

"I’m not perfect, nor will I ever be. I’m not the most beautiful person, but I’m beautiful in God’s eyes. I may not have the "perfect" body, but I am healthy. My imperfections are clearly visible. It’s through our imperfections we become who we are. God made us in his image and made us to be exactly who HE WANTS us to be! We are a creation made by him; if you do not love yourself then you aren't loving one of God’s creations. To think you’re ugly is thinking one of God’s creations is ugly. God is the maker and ruler of this universe… he doesn’t do anything without putting his heart into it first. Love yourself."

All this stuff is so true and hopefully one day I'll believe it without a shadow of a doubt!