When You Don’t Feel Beautiful

We are not talking about a bad hair day.  We are talking about possibly a physical change like weight gain, scars, or cancer has taken away your hair and eyebrows and you are questioning your beauty.  I’ve lived with vitiligo for some years.  I’ve watched my so-called “perfect” skin morph into something that looks like burns all over my body.  I remember praying to God about it.  “Heal me from this vitiligo completely or heal the way that I view myself in the mirror.”  Some of the white patches have faded away but for sure the way that I used to look at myself has changed.  I can confidently look in the mirror and say, “I am beautiful,” not based on society’s standards but God’s standards.