beautiful.

i was walking home tonight and was thinking about this picture that i had taken on the way to church one day, and it dawned on me: no matter how ugly and sinful we are, God has called us beautiful. we are beautiful to Him despite our brokenness. we are beautiful in our absolute need for Him. we are beautiful because we are His, and He loves us. and that's enough. we are beautiful, and we haven't done anything to deserve it. and we don't need to.
now, isn't that beautiful?