Even if there is no one in your life who has demonstrated the pattern of acceptance to you, it is a pattern that you can discover for yourself. It is a gift you can give yourself. You can come to recognize how beautiful you really are. You can come to know how precious you are to God. Do you have any idea how precious you are to God? Don’t you know that you are so precious that even the hairs on your head are numbered? You are so precious that your name is inscribed on the palm of God’s hand. It’s not just written there—so that it might be erased, rubbed out. Your name is inscribed, etched,
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