Just some thoughts that have been on my mind that I would like to write down...
As most women know, from the time that a girl is born, we are exposed to all kinds of ideas about our bodies and how we should treat them. Like most women I am not alone in the search to find the Truth and find a balance about how it really should be. Over the last month this has really been on my mind. I know that it makes Heavenly Father sad when women do things to their bodies that tries to make them all the same. He did not create us the same for a reason, therefore we should not try to become identical. Now when I see magazines in the store, it makes me sad to see what role models and doing to their bodies, it isn't something I aspire to in any way. I have grown an appreciation for my body over the years. Heavenly Father gave me my hips, hair, face, legs, feet, tummy, and every other part of my body as a gift, he created it just the way he wanted it to be. I can finally say, I love my body just the way it is! Yes, I still have my moments of weakness, but the fact that it wont look like it did in high school, in this life, it is okay. I don't have to be a model with no figure, I will never look that way, nor do i want to. No one in my life or in anyone else's should be setting unwanted expectations on what my body should be other than being healthy. So here is what I do care about, I want to take care of my body and be as healthy as Heavenly Father will allow. This does not mean running 20 miles a day, it does not mean I am never going to eat chocolate or anything that is not good for me, this means, all things in moderation, and I am not going to be ashamed of what I look like because in Heavenly Fathers eyes, I am beautiful, I am gorgeous beyond anything I can imagine (or I have the ability to be)and that is the only thing that matters.
My body is a gift, and with it comes the gift of motherhood, and with motherhood comes sacrifice. And with motherhood comes, change of body, that is all it is, change, it isn't good or bad, just change. Yes, weight gain is part of it, and it isn't bad. Even after the baby is here, your body is never the same, it is changed, and that is how Heavenly Father intended it to be.
Being a mom has been the best change I have gone through in my life, it is why we are here. It is so exciting to watch Kaleb learn and grow! He is worth every pain I have felt on his behalf.
This gift that God has created, was created especially for me, he knows what I need and has created it accordingly. It was a customized gift that he made just for me, how could you not love a gift made with so much love and potential?
