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Leah's Loveliness

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

I am always struck by the range of emotions I feel on Mothers day. I imagine I can't be the only one, although it feels like it at times. This mothers day (at least at 9:30am) I am feeling blessed. I got to sleep in, have fresh doughnuts and coffee in bed, I received the gift I wanted plus something I wasn't expecting… 
Wow, am I really this shallow?
I vaguely recall last year when the circumstances were the opposite, and oh how I struggled. I felt unloved, unappreciated, sad and ugly. I had a lot of overcoming to do that day. I had a lot of confessing and repenting to do that day. I am learning. I am growing. Really, God is faithful! 
I guess whatever attitude you find yourself in this day, I am hopeful God will meet you. I am hopeful that as you remember your worth in HIM, you would be able to rejoice no matter what the circumstances facing you are. That we would remember Jesus! Our great Redeemer! The only one who gives us worth or makes us beautiful. 

I love this account of Rachel and Leah as Sarah Lloyd-Jones recalls it and thought it was a good reminder for us mother's on this day. Whether disappointed or content, praying you and I would know our worth and beauty is Jesus and Him alone. 

     ~So Jacob worked for Laban another seven years and, at last, Rachel become his wife. Now Jacob had two wives, but of his two wives, Jacob loved Rachel the best. "No one loves me," Leah said. "I'm too ugly."
     But God didn't think she was ugly. And when he saw that Leah was not loved and that no one wanted her, God chose her - to love her specially, to give her a very important job. One day, God was going to rescue the whole world - through Leah's family. 
     Now when Leah knew that God loved her, in her heart, suddenly it didn't matter anymore whether her husband loved her best, or if she was the prettiest. Someone had chosen her, someone did love her - with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Un-breaking, Always and Forever Love. 
     So when Leah had a baby boy she called him Judah, which means, "This time I will praise the Lord!" And that's just what she did. And you'll never guess what job God gave Leah. You see, when God looked at Leah, he saw a princess. And sure enough, that's exactly what she became. One of Leah's children's children's children would be a prince - the Prince of Heaven - God's Son. 
     This Prince would love God's people. They wouldn't need to be beautiful for him to love them. He would love them with all his heart. And they would be beautiful because he loved them. 
     Like Leah.~
The Girl No One Wanted Genesis 29-30, The Jesus Story Book Bible, by Sally Lloyd-Jones