Thank You!

As I receive comments I just need to say THANK YOU!! There is a big part of me that pretends, no one is reading this, in order to allow myself to be vulnerable. But having readers, and comments is such strength! I am grateful I am not alone in this. I am grateful that through my own weaknesses and growth, I can inspire you. But I am most grateful for you cheering me on, strengthening my hope, and encouraging me to keep going. You are my inspiration! My driving force, to keep trying. I do not want to let you down. I am not following this process perfectly, but I believe whole-heartedly in it! I do not doubt it. I just doubt myself, sometimes. But that is why I am hear, I am learning and growing and one day, one day, I will be able to say, "I did it, look how I struggled, look how I overcame! And look at me now! Look who I am becoming!"

And the becoming isn't so much the image, but more of the power from knowledge. I always tell my husband, "I don't care if I am this size the rest of my life. I just want to learn and overcome the weakness. If I take the easy way out, what have I learned about myself?" I am hoping more to gain character attributes, more than skinny legs. Because I know that the refiner's fire I go through to get those is far better than gaining the perfect body image. I truly want to overcome the bad habits I have formed, the temptations that keep me from being better, the laziness that comes from not feeling better about the person I am, and the fear of being a better me.

I saw this on a friends facebook page, and loved it. I also love the DOVE commercials, that break away from what the world tells us we should look like, and instead tells us to embrace the loveliness that we already possess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCTt9O8Kpf0