What do you see when you look in the mirror? Many of us see what we’re not instead of who we actually are, don’t we?


We see someone who burned dinner or spilled juice on the carpet. Someone who lost her car keys—again. Someone who is not the right height or weight. Someone plagued with could-have-beens and if-onlys.


These disappointments and imperfections are why we want to cover up who we really are. We want to make sure that the world around us sees only the version of us that we want them to see. But the Bible tells us we are children of God—loved and treasured exactly as we are.


Over the next two weeks we are going to challenge students to take a look at themselves and dare to be real.