Today we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Sam Albury, entitled Five Myths About Body Image.

Sam is the author of What God Has to Say About Our Bodies, How the Gospel is Good News for Our Physical Sells, from Crossway.

Five Myths About Body Image. from Crossway. Five myths about body image, written and read by Sam Albury.

Our insecurities.

A friend told me he thought his eyes were too close together.

Another feels self-conscious about being too skinny.

Another about his height. Once we start broaching

the subject of what we like or don't like about our bodies, it seems as though the vast

majority of people feel unhappy about some aspects of their physical appearance, the shape of the

nose, the size of the ears, the proportion of different features relative to one another. Very few of us, it seems, are happy with our body image.

There are all sorts of reasons for this, of course.

The unrealistic standards of beauty being pushed on us almost constantly by the media for one.

But the cumulative effect is that it can leave us thinking about our bodies in a seriously distorted way.

Five myths about body image seem particularly prevalent.

Myth 1. My body is a mistake.

I recently bought a new lamp for my home. When I tried to set it up, I realised the various

parts had not been properly made and could not be

fixed together as they were meant to be. It's how many of us feel about our bodies, that there

was some glitch at the factory when we were being made, only we don't have the same option of

ordering a free replacement. However we feel about our bodies, though, the Bible makes it very

clear that God made them them and he made them carefully

quote you formed my inward parts you knitted me together in my mother's womb i praise you for i am fearfully and wonderfully made

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