#2 You Are Fine The Way You Are

For real.  As you go through life, especially during your teen years, among hundreds of the questions that will go through your cerebral cortex will be: "Am I good enough?  Is there something wrong with me?  Why can't I sing like that person?  Why can't I be like that person in this magazine?" and dozens more like that.  In fact some of these questions still haunt many adults even in their 30s, 50s, and even 70s (past 80s I heard they either don't give a darn or they don't remember if they pull their pants up or not).  It is human nature to compare yourself to others, to think that you have to DO something to prove your worth, to earn your place, to earn love.

You will always be our children.  We want you to know that we may dislike or disapprove certain things that you do, but they still don't change the fact that you are our children.  Who you are matters most to us than what you do.  You are fine the way you are.  JJ Heller wrote a beautiful song on this about how God "loves you for who you are, not for what you have done or what you will become."