Love Yourself Today

You know how there are just some people you just want to be like?  

There's something about them that you are drawn to, but you just can't figure out what it is? 

There are people like that in my life.  They criss-cross my path from time to time and I find myself mesmerized by them.  Sometimes it's just something about them that I can't quite put my finger on.  Other times it's a talent they have that I wished I could somehow inherit or learn, but it's a talent that I can't quite grasp.  It slips through my fingers no matter how hard I try.  It might be their intelligence or understanding I covet.  Sometimes it's their ability to simplify - something I desire greatly to be able to do.  There are other things, but it is late and I can't remember them right now.  :) 

I know we shouldn't covet abilities, talents, or personality traits that others have.  It is so damaging to our self esteem.  I know that.  But I have that human weakness and I falter from time to time in this area.  It's Christmastime.  I inevitably fall into that snare year after year when it is the season of joy.  {sigh} I'm pretty sure this is a normal part of womanhood that we all face from time to time.

Don't worry though.  I'll only let myself hang around this mood for a few more minutes.  I'll talk myself out of it by morning and begin a new day with the resolve to love myself... believe in myself... accept myself... for who I am... again... like I always do.  Because I am enough.  

P.S. - YOU are enough too.  Love yourself today because you are worth loving.