made for love.

Our lips may be worn red or pink, naked & chapped, or bright and glossy. Some may loudly speak our minds while others are more quiet and reserved. Our eyes may be light or dark, large or small, enhanced with mascara, lashes, and liner, or completely bare. They may be heavy with age, wisdom, pain and suffering, or may be light and easy and bright.  Our ears may be pierced once, twice, three or more times, or not at all. They may have heard lies, gossip, affirmation, laughter, and melodies. Our bodies may be all different shapes and sizes, tattooed with ink or marked by experience, some may have traveled long distances, some ventured only within their home-town. We may dance, photograph, act, heal, play sports, study, fix cars, cook, or teach. We may have purple nails or no color at all, long dark hair or simple and short. We may have lots of friends or a few close ones. We may cherish art or could care less. We may be fashionable or hate shopping all together. We have seen or experienced pain. We have cried. We have been fearful and afraid. We have been joyous and excited. We recognize miracles. We are women and we were made for Love.

We want to be desired. We hope to be accepted. We want to be held. We want to be whispered to. We want someone to listen to what we have to say. We want to be respected. We hope to be admirable. We want others to appreciate us. We want to be cared for. We want to be forgiven. We want to be trusted. We want to be appealing. We want someone to notice. We want to be treated like we were made for Love.

Look into my eyes and don't stop there. Look deep enough and pierce my heart. Stare at me with awe and treat me like the treasure that I am. Be my safe haven, my soft place to land. I may not always look glamorous or perfectly put together, but I am lovely and I was made for Love.

I am woman. I am beauty. I am art. I am receptivity. I am life-giving. I am strength. I am wise. I am wrong. I am right. I am insight. I am passion. I am creativity. I am purpose. I am made for Love.

Reflecting today how we are far from perfect. We have moments we've learned the hard way and times when we were proud of the choices we made. We are each incredibly unique inside and out. We have different struggles, pasts, ambitions, and opinions. But regardless of what we've done and where we've been we are always, always, always, dignified and worthy of adoration. Because even the walls and barriers that may separate and divide us can never dismiss the FACT that we are women, we are beautiful, and we were made for Love.

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