I AM PRETTY
I AM PRETTY! By Coach Dreama Kelly, MA-HSC Psalm 139: 14 "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and my soul knoweth right well.” (KJV). Genesis 1:27 “So God created humans in His image…” (GWT). I remember as an overweight-teenager having people, mostly older, silly, clueless people, tell me “You are so pretty for a fat girl!” or “You have a pretty face”…and without fail my response was “Yep, pretty ugly and pretty apt to stay that way”…but in my heart, to be truthful and now old enough to not really care about being ridiculed, I did think I was pretty. I had a kind heart, a quick retort for anyone wanting to put me down for not being a size 9 or under, and I knew that as a Christian, I had a lot to offer to the world; so yeah, I did think I was pretty. So why the self-abased response? Self-doubt. Uncertainty. Shyness. Low self-esteem. A misunderstanding of who I was in Christ. Not knowing the differenc