Are you the girl that...

Are you the girl the feels small in a crowd of others? 

Are you the girl that feels silenced because of your past? 

Are you the girl that doesn't get invited to the girl trips or gatherings? 

Are you the girl that opens up social media and feels like you’ll never be good enough 

because you don’t look like her or your house doesn’t look like 

hers or your clothes don’t look like hers? 

Are you the girl that thinks that goodness, blessing, favor is for other girls but not for you? 

Are you the girl that looks around and thinks you’ll never be as beautiful or as funny or as 

sexy or as skinny or as popular as those around you?

Are you the girl that can’t receive a compliment because all you remember was that hurtful 

comment spoken about you? Are the girl that holds your head down in a crowd because 

shame was put on you in your past? 

I just want to say that I see you and you’re not alone. 

I know what shame and pain and embarrassment and unworthiness and wanting to just hide

 from life because of fear and past experiences feels like. I know what it feels like to be left out. 

I know what it feels like to have people say hurtful things about you. 

I know what it feels like to be broken down to dust and feel completely hopeless. 

But I also know what it feels like to rise out of those ashes and face my greatest fears. 

I know what it feels like to stand on the other side of shame and find value in who 

God made me to be. I know what it feels like to be found worthy and of value because 

I stopped looking for it in the outward or in what others thought and instead found it in 

who God says that I am. I know what it feels like to be brave and do what scares me 

because I know that it was what I was meant to do. God didn’t create us to be victims to 

our lives but to be victorious in our lives. Jesus ROSE from the grave victorious over sin and death. 

He didn’t stay buried in that tomb but rose out of it and showed Himself to be the God of the impossible.

And that same Spirit that rose Christ from the dead lives in us! (romans 8:11)

That is victory living in us.

No matter what your past is, Christ in you can bring you into victory over all of that. 

YOU ARE WORTHY BECAUSE CHRIST LIVES IN YOU. 

You no longer have to be the girl that’s shamed or embarrassed or uninvited or intimidated by the world. 

You are valuable and loved and worthy enough to step out into YOUR own life and own it.

Go listen to “This is Me” from The Greatest Showman and shake yo thang and

 step out into your life in the freedom given to you by Jesus Himself!

“I am not a stranger to the dark

Hide away, they say

'Cause we don't want your broken parts

I've learned to be ashamed of all my scars

Run away, they say

No one'll love you as you are

But I won't let them break me down to dust

I know that there's a place for us

For we are glorious

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down

I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out

I am brave, I am bruised

I am who I'm meant to be, this is me

Look out 'cause here I come

And I'm marching on to the beat I drum

I'm not scared to be seen

I make no apologies, this is me”

Xoxo

Abs