Dear Mary and Theresa, I knew your Daddy best when we were both in 4th grade together and were neighbors.  He lived in a small, white one-story house beyond my back yard in Tennessee.  I had just moved to town and he was one of the first friends I met.  He was always friendly like that, even at a young age.  I remember we would take turns trying to jump off the roof of his one-story house onto the grass below, until we would eventually get in trouble for it.  He was braver than I, and he must have been practicing […]
“To see myself as beautiful as God sees me.”  It’s a little twist on words, isn’t it?  I like to say this short prayer as part of my morning daily prayers.  I have tried for years to obtain beauty, never quite meeting mine or others expectations.  And then it occurred to me.  God sees His children as beautiful; He created us in His Image; and God saw all that He had made and it was very good.  We are a masterpiece, God’s Masterpiece!  If I could only retrain my thinking to see myself as God sees me ~ with tender, loving, compassionate, […]

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About the Author

Sue McCusker is a freelance writer, Bible teacher, and former corporate IT Analyst. Her stories have been published in several Guideposts books and magazines, as well as in her devotional book, A Christmas Story Devotional. She loves sharing stories of life, hope, and faith, and inspiring others to experience real faith in their everyday lives.