beloved from ephesians 2

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation...

I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope.

There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast”; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable.