Try this on for size

Hello beautiful!  Whoa, no need to look around for who I am calling out to.  I am talking to you. Yes, you!  Go on - try it on for size, this exquisite garment called "I am beauty-full".  I see you hesitate, and I do understand.  Funny as it is , it can be hard to let go of those old fashion trends of doubt and self-loathing.  Perhaps we know all too well what happened to Joseph when he began sharing his inner-vision, and then topped it off by putting on his technicolor dreamcoat.  It turned out pretty amazing for him in the end as a ruler of Egypt, only second to Pharoah.  But that was after being shoved into a pit by his brothers to die, sold into slavery, and sentenced to rot in an Egyptian prison cell.  Of course, in that story, Joseph presented himself as superior to his brothers.  The beauty I see in you is equal in us all, but it still can be scary to let it shine.  So, as for me, at the risk of such persecution and excommunication for showing the bright light of our truth, I am done with my worn out, worthless wardrobe of "not-enough-ness".   I have been willing to try on far too many of these false little numbers such as 'I am....too thin, too fat, too short, not smart enough, not charming enough, not pretty enough, not clever enough, not rich enough, not successful enough, not popular enough.........shall I go on?  I've built a large walk-in wardrobe here folks, and it is all on it's way out.  Every day I wake and remind myself to try on "I am beautiful, I am love" for size.  Go on, try it on yourself. The secret is, you have always been wearing it.  Shed those garments that vainly try to cover the magnificence of who you truly are.  You are undoubtedly beautiful, beyond, beyond.  Love is the new black, people - try it on for a change.

"That which God said to the rose, 
and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, 
He said to my heart, 
and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”  
~Rumi