That new car smell. I’d heard about it. I’d smelled it before. I had thought about it often when I heard of someone getting a new car. But that smell… well it was always for someone else. It was a luxury that just wasn’t meant for me. For reasons unknown I didn’t think I deserved to be able to smell that smell and call it my own. I had been on a car lot many times. Looking… test driving…. walking away from a sale… even being turned down for the sale. But it always seemed like I settled. Whether it was the color, or the model or the price. The recurrent theme in all my vehicles was one thing… used.

What an ugly word it can be. Used. In other words… “pre-owned”, “second- hand”, ” worn”.

I had felt all of those. I had started believing I was all of these things. But something changed Inside me and I began a couple years ago seeing myself different. I began to see me as God sees me. Not how I felt. I felt used. I felt worn. I felt like I was settling in life.

But When God’s word helped me realize He looks at me as worthy and new and priceless, I began to believe it myself.

So ….that new car smell.

Now I have been blessed beyond measure to have a husband who sees me as God does. He has given me a renewed sense of worth that has helped me believe God again. God set my worth before I was formed…. no matter what my life has held… Bo has loved me back to loving myself. And I am able to breathe deep. And yes … I believe I can smell that new car after all!!!!