God Loves Ugly from writer Christa Black
MARCH 3, 2008, 8:14 pm
JORDIN SPARKS & "GOD LOVES UGLY"
hey friends...
last year, my beautiful friend jordin sparks won the biggest crown in the music today....she won the title of 'american idol.' i have two shows that i refuse to miss....'lost' & 'american idol'....(and embarrassingly enough...'the bachelor' shhhhhhhh...)....so when jordin's name was called, and the confetti fell and simon cowell stood up in applause....i cried my little green eyes out. to watch someone that young....someone of that talent, but most importantly....someone whose heart is absolutely golden...i couldn't have been more proud.
that was enough for me. my sweet little friend jordin had won and was going to change the world. and then i get...'the' phone call.
i heard she wanted to record 'god loves ugly' through the grapevine and was flooded with waves of emotion. when i wrote that song about my past, i knew it was going to help a lot of people simply because it wasn't just my story, but the story of so many. how many of us have been told that we're ugly...or stupid...that we wouldn't amount to anything....or we've done things that were so shameful we guard those secrets with our lives.
i got married earlier this year...and i can honestly say, it's the best thing that's ever happened to me. most of my life, i was petrified of someone getting too close...because what if they saw the things about me that i hated...would the reject me like i'd so many times rejected myself? having someone love the things that i've hated about myself actually started to heal me in those areas...and ended up changing the things about myself that i thought were so 'ugly' into things that i could actually finally see as beautiful.
love changes everything.
'God loves ugly' is a love story. it's a love story about a girl who was so broken, and so beat up, that when she looked in the mirror, all she could see were the scars and bruises. she came to the end of her rope and cried out to God. the definition of God is "love".....so when God...when LOVE started touching those parts of her that she hated, the love actually started to turn the ugly into something she never imagined.....she actually started seeing herself as beautiful for the first time in her life.
it's amazing how love-starved the world is....and how it's what everybody wants more than anything. i've never met a child who desired to be hated....or someone who longed to be despised. sometimes that happens over time when someone believes the lie that it's what they deserve....but the core of man desires one thing: to be loved and accepted.
my love bucket was empty....and i knew in order to start seeing myself as beautiful...or just as a person of worth, i needed something big....i needed a big kind of love.
it's an ridiculously enormous honor to have jordin fight to sing this song to the world...no matter the cost. a lot of people don't want to hear about God...they don't want to hear about love. it conjures up deep wounds that people don't like to revisit....but going back to the wounds is the ONLY way for healing to occur....and for that, i applaud her for her stand to sing about something so profound.
her album comes out tomorrow, November 20.07. go buy it. you won't be disappointed. she's a brilliant artist, and one that will be around for decades to come.
and it's nice to have an artist that you KNOW you can be proud to support...and believe me, this girl is loving and kind and generous and will be a role-model to this generation.
love you all...thanks sooooo much for your support....
xx, christa
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Love this song
I can relate to this song that's one reason I love it and i still have tears come out of my eyes every time i hear it. Jordin sparks rocked this song I love her....
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***Stephanie***
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!
This song touches my heart. I finally found a song that fits me, explains me, and i love it soo much!!! Thanks Christina for writing it!
~ Destiny :P~
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gtgg
I <3 Jordin
Jordin,
You are AMAZING!!!!!
Youre a true star,and a role model to alot of people!!!!
You Rock My Socks All THe Way From Glendale!!!!
Rock On Babe (lol)
You SParkle!!!!!
I Will Always Look up to you & Love You
Bethany=]
A True Idol
Jordin,
From the very beginning of American Idol you had this certain kind of charm to you. Watching you perform every week was inspiring in so many wasy I can't describe. You help me take faith in myself, and help me believe that God loves me the way I am. My dream is to become a singer, and you are the one I look up to for support. You make singing look so easy, and you show that being a good star is a cool thing to do. I'm so proud of you , and wish you the best through everything. Hopefully I'll get to follow my dream and bve a singer and maybe sing right by your side. God has truly blessed you, and I hope you continue to show the world who Jordin Sparks really is.
I <3333 Jordin Sparks
Bethany
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Hey jordin this is alex and i like all of your songs and you are my idol. I can't wait till you come to the American Bank Center. I wish you the best.
Always Alexandra Rodriguez
this is so amazing!
Jordin..This is like awesome.YOU are awesome! God loves ugly...not many people will go out and say that,especially in this world today! But you are just incredible. Stand up for your beliefs! IF jordin ever reads this,message me please!<333
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~Bekah~Luv ya jordin<3
Your BIGGEST Fan, ZandraD7
Jordan Sparks is so cool. She is also beautiful and is a great influence on kids and teenagers.
:( 
I love her music. My favorite song is " One step at a Time". She is talented for just being an 18 year-old.
My biggest dream is to spend a day with her and get her autograph. But we all know this may never happen.
It would be cool if she read all these. It would be even cooler if she emailed me back.
JORDAN SPARKS IF YOU ARE READING THIS PLEASE WRITE ME BACK IF YOU CAN. THAT WOULD BE SO COOL IF YOU DID. I AM YOUR #1 FAN EVER.
YOUR #1 FAN ZandraD7
God turns ugly to beautiful ^_^
This song is the most one that i can actually relate to it. i LOVE it!! i listen to it ALL the time specially when im feeling bad or when i have a bad day..
and it always makes me cry because its soo meaningful and i LOVE IT!!
Jordin sang it beautifully. Im so glad Jordin sang it =D
This song makes my day when i listen to it ^_^
Hope to hear more gr8 songs from jordin !! =D
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God Loves ME!
Wow... I teared up reading this. "God Loves Ugly" is actually my favorite song off of the album. It's, in so many ways, about me and what I've gone through. And it's so aggravating because when people look at me at a glance... they assume that I can just get any guy I want or that I should know that I'm pretty. I've only recently began to see that I'm beautiful on the outside as well. I always felt like I may be on the inside, but no one would get to know because no one cared about that. Turns out... they did care about that and they didn't like that either (people think it's strange to be a geniunely nice and have dreams). So when I heard "God Loves Ugly" for the first time on Nov. 20th (had to get it on the day it came out), my heart overflowed with... what's the word?... Emotion, I guess. The fact that there was so much sincerity in Jordin's voice as she was singing made me really believe what she was saying. And I actually found myself thinking a lot like others ("There's no way Jordin could understand what she saying... She's gorgeous"), but then I realized what I was doing/saying.
I thank God for this song, and I thank God for Jordin. And I definitely thank God for the songwriter who wrote such beautiful, meaningful, and touching lyrics. You have NO idea what it means to me (because I didn't do a great job explaining...). There are still some things that God continues see in me that I don't, and may never, understand and that is so overwhelming. He continues to bless me for those reasons, although I think the fact that He loves me so much is a blessing in itself. I still feel unworthy sometimes, but what can I say? God Loves Ugly! God Loves ME!!!
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"Do what you gotta do, to get where you wanna get."- TreLisa
Appreciated
Jordin is Heaven sent, I love God loves Ugly, even the title is catchy and so very true
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SO VERY TRUE WOW
AS SOON AS THE STORE OPENED I WENT TO "Go buy it. you won't be disappointed". THAT'S FOR SURE EVERY HUNDREDS OF TIMES I'VE PLAYED IT EVERY DAY SINCE. "She's a brilliant artist, and one that will be around for decades to come". FOR SOME REASON I KNEW THIS FROM WHEN JUST A TV SHOW BECAME NEVER WANTING THIS GIRL TO GO AWAY NO MATTER WHAT. "and it's nice to have an artist that you KNOW you can be proud to support..." I SO VERY AM "and believe me, this girl is loving and kind and generous." YES I DO!!! JUST ME MARK NOW.... No one is the 6 year history of the show has ever captivated me more than Jordin and I really don't think anyone ever will in the future. CHRISTA IS RIGHT AMERICA PLEASE BUY HER CD YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED.....
sweet..
wow! i didnt really know how grand the meaning of this song was.. Of course the words speak for themselves.. but what was said above, well.. im speechless.. When I first listened to the song.. tears built up in my eyes.. I re-played it just to listen to the words.. and well it touched me.. I myself have gone through phases where I question my strength and appearance.. though all my life people have complimented me.. I just dont feel what they say.. but it is true, if we have the love and peace that God throws our way.. we will have that fill us up! Cause of course no matter how we look or how we feel.. God see's us as the most BEAUTIFUL princess', and prince's in the universe.. we mean everything to him.. as he should to us..
so sweet i love joridn sparkels so much
i am so gald myself she won american idol i was so exited that she did i was liek omg joridn won yaaaaaaaaa i was so exited i love joridn so much i love her song god loves ugly its so beacutiful song joridn is in my heart and i love her soooooo much she means so much to me love always forever # 1 jordin fan magen i love u jordin
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