My Mother Lies

https://youtu.be/FLCh58g_2s8  

My daughter has an artist she deeply admires - Avery Anna. 

Last week she not only saw her in concert, but got to meet her afterwards in a surprise, meet and greet.

In 2023, Avery began inviting her fans to bring “let it go letters “ describing past hurts and traumas that they wrote down and metaphorically left on the stage as part of a healing process.

Avery collected and read them and has responded to some in musical form.

At just 21 years, she is already  understanding her purpose and the good she can do.

She uses her platform to share her belief and her love of God as well.   

In this message of just 9 short lines she speaks a truth that every woman and mother should hear and deeply absorb.  

My mother says I am a pretty girl

She says that I have my father's eyes

Oh, my mother says that I am beautiful

But she picks apart her every shape and size

So when my mother says I am a pretty girl

While I'm walking around with my mother's thighs

Oh, when my mother says that I am beautiful

Oh, I'm thinking to myself, my mother lies

Because if she don't think she's pretty, how can I?”

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

— 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 

Simple. Profound.  And crucially important.

Our bodies are sacred gifts from God, and how we speak about them—whether in our thoughts or words—should reflect respect, gratitude, and reverence.

Here is her version aloud.