ALL ARE WELCOME

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you," (Jeremiah 1)
I love this picture because my father had it in his office when I was a little boy. It was probably the first exposure I had, besides my parents encouragement and love, that I was actually OK. God don't make no junk, so if God made me, I must be OK. 
It is easy for us to "misremember" this and instead buy into the other voices around us who tell us that we are junk, or at least, not enough, or too flawed, imperfect, or wrong, to be of any consequence. 
Hogwash, says God! You are enough, you are a blessing, and you are unique and special. Does this mean we do not need to grow and evolve in our thoughts, words, and deeds? Of course not. 
What it does mean is that, like all things involving our relationship to God, we are responding to what God in Christ has ALREADY DONE for us, for our world, for our neighbors, etc. We don't "get right" with God by what WE DO, but by trusting, acknowledging, and responding to what God has already done for us, i.e. create us and the amazing world around us, give us breath and life and unique talents and gifts to share with others, and provide people who come into our lives to be a  blessing and reminder of God's goodness, grace, and love! 
Perhaps  Psalm 139 can be a model for how we can respond faithfully!
13  For it was you who formed my inward parts;  you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.
15  My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16  Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.
17  How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18  I try to count them—they are more than the sand; I come to the end and I am still with you.
In other words, GOD DON'T MAKE NO JUNK!