I believe every woman no matter where she lives or what she does for a living deep down, somewhere in her soul, wants to be beautiful. There are gals I have met that insist this is not true, but you know what, I don't believe them. I will admit that I want to be beautiful, maybe it is not as important to be beautiful to everyone, but there are certainly people in my life I want to think that I am beautiful. Now I am going to say, I have had people in my life that I never doubted thought I was beautiful. My Dad told me from the time I can remember, every time I saw him just how beautiful he thought that I was. Although, I am sure this was a biased opinion, that did not matter. I knew that he thought I was beautiful. As a little girl to a grown woman I never got tired of him telling me just that. One of the first things that I told Jeff after my Dad passed away was that I was going to need to hear him tell me I was beautiful because my Dad was no longer here to do that for me. And what a great husband I have because he has really stepped it up in the "Judy, you look great today". He is really not a "beautiful" word kind of guy, but you know what, it works for me. I want my beauty to come from inside as well and that is where I have to rely on God to give me the beauty that will permeate from His heart into mine allowing myself full exposure and vulnerability to those I do life with. To trust Him and offer my true self to those around me is hard at times but I know, again, deep down God says I am beautiful and I want to live in that.
Show me your face, let me hear your voice;
For your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
Song of Solomon 2:14
Are you beautiful? Yes, my friend, you are. Indeed.
Posted by: Megan | April 27, 2010 at 10:47 AM
You are because you are created in God's OWN image! :-)
Posted by: Mary Craig | April 28, 2010 at 09:28 AM
i have lots of doors, i want to know your idea!!
Posted by: amanda | April 28, 2010 at 05:09 PM
Beautifully said!
Posted by: Dana Nichols | May 01, 2010 at 02:00 PM