Masterpieces

Last night I watched a movie.  It didn't have great ratings, but I have learned to not pay attention to ratings and judge a movie by MY standards.  This movie was "Moms Night Out".  I LOVED it!  It starts off with a woman, a mother, who is trying to get up on Mother's Day to blog. (This is NOT the reason why I love this movie.) The movie then moves onto how motherhood is hard.  And let me tell you, it depicts it quite well in the first 10 minutes of the movie. No, the first 30 minutes of the movie.

Parenting IS hard.  Each person is unique in their own special way.  My oldest has an imagination that Disney himself would be impressed with.  My middle child has the gift of making friends with anyone and every one and our youngest is 3 years old and right now it seems that his "talent" is finding ways to get into trouble with EVERYTHING! I am holding out hope that this "talent" changes though.

Anyway, there was a point in the movie where she starts to feel like a huge failure and that she isn't happy in this life that she dreamed of because she doesn't feel like she gives her kids enough or that she is enough for her kids.  The "actor" (and I say "actor" because it is Trace Adkins the country singer) that plays opposite her in this scene proceeds to tell her that when he was younger he would stay up at night just so that his mom could come home from work and tuck him in.  She would say the exact same thing to him every night.  In a more condensed version, that God loves him no matter what. By the end of the movie, she is more relaxed and is able to see things in a different light.  She blogs, "I am His masterpiece."  This is why I LOVE this movie. I am a masterpiece.  And I am FINALLY starting to see myself this way. I want EVERYONE to know that YOU are a GLORIOUS masterpiece.  YOU are an important brush stroke on this canvas of life. Each one of us is a MASTERPIECE.

Not only is this journey allowing me to lose weight and become healthier, but it is also allowing me to see through the dense fog that was my depression.  The fog is starting to lift and I am starting to see a different person.  And it makes me happy.