I wanted to share something that has been on my heart recently. I wrote this a couple days ago.

To you, I may not be anything special. We may be friends. We could be enemies. But the truth is that it doesn't matter what you think of me. When God looks at me, He sees a piece of Himself. A glorious creation. A sweet, wonderfully made daughter. A lot of the time, other people get to me. I let what someone says discount my sense of self-worth. I let my loneliness or the memories of those who have abandoned me affect how I live my life. I let my anxiety and Satan's lies tell me that nobody cares about me, that nobody would miss me if I were gone. Those are the hardest days. But then I think about what God says about me. He thinks that I am worth dying for. He thinks that about all of us. And it's not just something He thinks or says. He acts upon it too. Jesus is a man of His word, and He died for us. So, even on the bad days, I can rest easy knowing that my eternity is secure, even when the world hates me. I can know that I get to spend the rest of my life (and eternity) being loved by God and praising Him. So even if I am "forever alone," I am not alone forever. My self-worth is not found in the hands of humans.