This image is taken from a photo of the painting as the original digital image is no longer available.

I have struggled in the past with low self-esteem, and I would often compare myself to others.  As I am the kind of person who symbolises nearly everything, I pictured myself like a common daisy, and my charismatic and extroverted friend as a red rose – which is beautiful and valuable.

God used two different people, on two separate occasions, to talk into my life regarding my warped perception about myself.  The two people prayed over me.  I was told on both times that God had given them a picture of a rose (I think both said a red rose), and that God saw me as a rose and that I was beautiful.  It took a while for those words to sink in, and that God values and treasures me just the way I am.  He created me and loves me.  How blessed I am that he knew just what I needed to hear!