Loving the Ugly Duckling

Many people spend most of their life trying to overcome an inner voice that tells them they are the Ugly Duckling.

It started with the parent that we couldn't please...."You never do it quite right, you don’t deserve what I am giving you, you’ll never measure up." Then the pastor chimed in...."It’s a good thing God is good…because we aren’t and can’t be. If good does happen to come from us, it’s because God did it, not us."

But what if God created humans as something with dignity, a being crowed with glory and honor? What is our potential if we stop telling ourselves the lie that some of us inherited from our parents and/or pastors....that we are the Ugly Duckling?