Good Morning Girls!  I feel it's time to bring the "She" series to a close.  I hope you all found it as interesting, challenging, and encouraging as I did.  I do want to leave you one final thought......and that is: How do you know when you have come to a point where you can honestly say you love the "She" that you are?

Let's take a look back at the original story that brought us to this series in the first place.  It was the story of the "fitness model" on the beach.  I found myself comparing my body to hers, and drawing the conclusion that "She" was perfect.....and I was far from it.  For a few minutes I was frustrated and sad.  I had thoughts of "I am never going to look like her."  I started racking my brain and planning the next "diet" I would start as soon as I got home from vacation.  I was ready to take drastic measures once and for all.  I too would eat nothing but chicken and brown rice if that is what it takes to look like "her".

Praise the Lord! These thoughts did not last long.  I was gently reminded by the Spirit that though "her" body is beautiful, and though I could stretch myself to the limit and look more like "her", that is not what I was fearfully and wonderfully made to do!  My heart has always been and continues to be to help women feel good about themselves; To lose the weight that holds them back from being the woman God made them to be.  My target audience is not women who have lost the weight and are wanting to go for that fitness model look.  Don't get me wrong, I think those women are beautiful, and inspiring, but they have enough resources on how to get to that level of fitness.

 My heart is for the Girls who simply want to learn how to make good food choices.  To Girls who struggle at staying consistent with any exercise program.  To Girls who desire to be able to wear this Springs cutest fashions, instead of having to wear whatever fits.  I believe I am more appealing to my target audience if I am fit and living the life I encourage other women to live. 

Don't misunderstand me.  I am always seeking to improve myself.  I am always challenging myself with my eating and my workouts.  I still have my personal fitness and body fat goals.  What I have come to realize though is that trying to look like "her" should not be one of them.......at this time.  If the Spirit prompts me to challenge myself in this area, I will obey.  I will obey because I will have been given the grace to do it.

You see, I have tried to be someone other than who I was created to be.  Every time I have, my plans have been frustrated (which is different than frustrating but that is a whole different lesson).   After kicking and screaming like a child, the Lord keeps bringing me back to the path He has set before me.  The path that I am currently on.  The path that I have grace for.  The path I am anointed to be on. 

For those of you who are ultimately trying to be shredded and perfected, this may get you in a tizzy.  You may think I am a quitter, a cop out, a fake.  Well my friends, we will just have to agree to disagree.  My days were recorded before I was ever born.  I know I am on the right path.  I know it, because I am joyful and free.  I am not in bondage to anything!  And most of all, when I sit back and ask myself "Do I wish I were "her"?" I can honestly say No!  I am glad I am me.

And that is how I know I can honestly answer the question at the start of this message.  I can honestly say YES!  I love the "She" that God created me to be!  And Girls, that is a wonderful place to be!

Psalm 139 13-14 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.  Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!  Your workmanship is marvelous- how well I know it!


Love you all-
Jen