Do you love yourself?

• By candidasullivan
• February 14, 2024
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It’s one thing to be loved and another entirely to feel loved. Sometimes, we don’t feel love from others because we withhold it from ourselves. We think other people are not loving us the way we need to be loved, but the truth is that sometimes we don’t love ourselves the way we need to be loved.

I’m speaking from experience.

My husband loved me.
My kids loved me.
My parents loved me.
My siblings loved me.
My friends loved me.
God loved me.

But the problem was that I didn’t love me. I hated my scars. I stood in the mirror for so many years and tore myself apart. I was a victim of my circumstances.

In my eyes, I was unworthy, unlovable, weak, and a burden to others. The bands shouldn’t have attacked me. I shouldn’t have to live with scars and everyday challenges.

Then, one day, God shifted my perspective. He opened my eyes to a different way to see my scars and all that I had been through. That day, my identity shifted. And for the first time, I saw myself as someone who had survived the trauma instead of just enduring it.

As I lifted weights this morning, heavier than anything I thought possible, I looked in the mirror and saw the changes love makes.

Loving myself helped me to heal and become stronger physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Every day, I do things to care for myself.

I lift weights.
Eat food to nourish my body.
Pray.
Read my Bible.
Walk.
Forgive.
Work on my thoughts.
Journal.
And do the work that feeds my soul.

The more I love God and myself, the more love I have to give others. When I feel full, then I freely give to others. Love is the path to God. To show others God, we must show them the beautiful love He placed inside us.

God is love!

Through His love, I am good enough, worthy, strong, kind, forgiving, courageous, and hopeful. The more we love, the more His goodness shines outward.

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