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God loves you. God loves you exactly as you are, for who you are, not despite who you are. You are loved, you are enough. There may be ways in which we want to change, grow, develop - but when we do it from a place of knowing ourselves loved right here, right now, just as we are, then we can perhaps embrace with courage and strength where we hope to be or where God is calling us to be.

May knowing ourselves completely loved make us brave in being ourselves and courageous in finding our voice. 

Brave

Sara Bareilles
You can be amazing
You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
You can be the outcast
Or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love
Or you can start speaking up
Nothing's gonna hurt you the way that words do
And they settle 'neath your skin
Kept on the inside and no sunlight
Sometimes a shadow wins
But I wonder what would happen if you
Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you.

Scripture

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.   1 John 4:16