I love SWEET advice

I got this in an email from my friend Ivy. Ivy lost her mom, Sweet Hopkins, to cancer this year. Her mom was one of the wisest people I know and she LOVED Jesus dearly. She also loved her 2 girls and loved 13auburnfriends. Here is some advice she gave to Ivy about body image, and it is funny that the advice she gave Ivy in the 7th grade is exactly what I need to hear as a 24 year old.

Ivy said: "Let me just share what Sweet Hopkins authoritatively told me in the 7th grade when I had an emotional break down and yelled at the top of my lungs, 'I am UGLY!'....

Sweet said in response to her: "Ivy, there are some girls out there that are fat and that are ugly, and you are not one of them. So, stop that right now."

We as girls can be so hard on ourselves, and I compare myself to others and find that I don't measure up. But I love Sweet's advice and I need someone to speak that to my heart daily: "Stop that right now." I am made in the image of Jesus and I am loved by Him completely. I am beautiful because I am His.