"In our ugliest moment, God says we are beautiful. In our worst failure, God says we are holy. In our deepest brokenness, God says we are whole. That is grace."
Susannah St. John
"In His Son, Jesus, He personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all."
Romans 8:3-4
Though we have been made in God's good image, and God never stopped seeing our good inner core, our outer behavior has not always been aligned with that inner image, and every one of us has failed at times. The good news is that God has already taken care of all our failures at the cross. Christ took every possible thing that went wrong with humanity and took it away at the cross. He took away the sin of the world. In place of all that we'd done wrong, He brought all that He did right. In place of our brokenness, He brought wholeness. So we may see our mistakes and ugly moments but God only sees beauty and wholeness. Whatever you feel has been wrong with you has already been set right once for all by Christ. That is grace!
A thought: God only sees goodness in me.