"Get Comfortable In Your Own Skin" - David Bordon/Tom Winters

       When you get a new pair of shoes, the only way to make them comfortable

          is to break them in.

       The same goes for your body.

       God has given you a one-of-a-kind physical form.

       He wove it together just for you and created it to reflect His glorious image.

      God intertwined both beauty and wonder into it, inside and out.

      But your body is not an art object to be put on a pillar and admired.

      It's the tool that the real you, the eternal part of you that loves and

         creates and hopes and dreams and worships, uses while you're on this

         earth.

     Once you get to heaven, you'll receive a new body - one that won't break

        or wear out.

     But you're not there yet.

     So the more comfortable you are in the body you have right now, the

        better you'll be able to use it and enjoy it as each day here on earth

        unfolds.

     You don't break in a body by mistreating it.

     You need to take care of it, like any tool, so it can do its job well and

        last a long time.

     You break in a body by getting off the couch and becoming active

       whenever you get the chance.

     Get down on the floor and play with a child.

     Use your muscles to help your new neighbors move into their

        house.

     Put on a swimsuit and get some exercise, no matter what size

       that swimsuit is.

     Jump and skip and lift and kneel, even if you jiggle and wiggle

       and need help getting up.

     The less self-conscious you are, the better job you'll do of

       breaking in your body and becoming comfortable with who

       you are and how you're made.

    So, ask God to help you put your inhibitions aside.

    Stop comparing yourself to others.

    Get up and get moving.

    There are places in this world where only a tool like you

       can do the job.