I Just Wish You Knew

I wish you could realize how delightful you are, how you can change the mood in a room with your smile, how you make others laugh, really laugh without even trying, how you have this inexplicable way of making others feel loved and special just by being you. 

I wish you could see yourself as others do, the complete package of an amazingly created you, woven together with such a special personality, a perfect blend of humor and enthusiasm, with just the right amount of silliness mixed with seriousness. 

I wish you could feel, truly feel how much He loves you, and notice how He romances you, trying to get your attention, pouring out His blessings on you, pursuing you, never giving up on you. 

I wish you could believe that you are worth so much more than anything any man has to offer, that your beauty is authentic and runs deep, that your value isn't found in the attention of a man, but in the intention of your God. 

I wish you knew how honored I am to be a part of your life, right here, right now, watching you as you face difficult challenges and learn that through Him you have what it takes to overcome them. 

I wish you could comprehend how when you hurt, He hurts, and I hurt too, how your wounds and scars don't confine you or define you, how He paid the price to set you free from them, all of them. Every last one of them. 

I wish you could not only hear the words I speak over you but hear the thoughts He thinks of you, as countless as the stars that fill the sky, as innumerable as the leaves upon the trees, how those thoughts are to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future. 

I wish you could know as I know that the you He created you to be is enough. You are smart enough, pretty enough, tall enough, thin enough, lovable enough. You don't have to try harder, be better, or do more to gain His favor. He loves you and accepts you just.the.way.you.are, because, truly, truly, you are enough. 

I just wish you knew...