Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God’s handwriting.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
This weekend was our annual photo shoot with Main Street Studios. We are blown away at this mans heart and generosity. He has the ability to generate outbursts of laughter and silliness, as our girls begin to relax and settle in to have their picture taken.
Picture day isn’t always fun, mostly because we all don’t feel as pretty as we truly are. Right? But we are ALL beautiful! We are beautiful even on the days we don’t feel like it. That’s the beauty of grace. It’s the ugly/beautiful moments that make us shine.
It’s the moments when girls with the most broken stories you can imagine, begin to celebrate each other. It’s words through laughter and tears, and shouting “you look so pretty” and “oh girl, you look gorgeous”. It’s when truth spoken louder than the lies listen to more often than not… saying “we aren’t good enough, smart enough or pretty enough”. It’s hearing and believe, “I am enough”. It’s the beautiful moment when you realize your sister saved you a seat or ordered french-fries so you can eat them off her plate…. That’s the beauty of grace.
These are the days we celebrate and embrace the ugly/beautiful as we witness first hand, God rewriting the story of Grace.
God’s grateful girl,
Becky Shaffer
The Beauty of Saving Grace 