‘God saw everything
that He had made, and indeed it was very good.’
Genesis 1:31
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Farai Chideya graduated
from Harvard, worked for Newsweek magazine, and quickly rose to the top. Yet
she spent years fighting bulimia, trying to become like the glossy images in
the make-believe world around her. When she finally broke free from her disease
she wrote: ‘Losing weight didn’t change my personality and it didn’t lighten
the emotional baggage I carried from my childhood. I thought I wanted to be
thin. What I really wanted was to be happy, and neither my looks nor my
achievements could do that. Because I couldn’t love or accept myself, the
acceptance of others was never enough. When I tried to be perfect I came across
as remote and unapproachable, yet the exact opposite was what I wanted.’ Then
she shares four life-changing principles: ‘1) Your obsession to be perfect will
keep you trapped in loneliness, for satisfying relationships can only be built
on honesty and total acceptance. 2) Your obsession to be perfect will force you
to see your shortcomings as something to hide, instead of opportunities for
growth. 3) Your obsession to be perfect will keep you fixated on what you’re
going to be some day, instead of enjoying what you are right now. 4) Your
obsession to be perfect will rob you of the chance to make your life count, for
by focusing constantly on yourself you’ll have nothing left to give to others.’
Bottom line: God didn’t need to create you, He chose to. On the day you were
born He smiled and said, ‘Very good.’ When you fully grasp that, you’ll begin
to overcome the problem of feeling ‘less than.’- (UCB-Word For Today.
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