Beauty comes from the heart - July 17, 2008

~ Beauty Comes from the Heart ~

As I sit here and think about all the things in life, one thing that always comes back to me is beauty and love. Every girl wants to know that they are beautiful and loved. I’ve been reading a book called “Captivating”, it is an amazing book about the beauty of women and the role we play in this world. 

God created us after His own image. Just as women are caring, protective, emotional, loving, giving, and jealous – so is God. God cares about us; after all, He created us. Wouldn’t you care about something you created? He is protective, He will only let some much happen to us and it will never be more then we can bear. We are emotional, but God created those emotions, and they are good, we just have to learn how to control them. God loves us so much He gave His one and only Son for us to die on the cross. He gives us everything we need; He knows what we need before we even ask, though He wants us to ask. God is a jealous God. He doesn’t us to have any other gods.

Women were created after Adam to be Adam’s help mate, his life saver. God said that “it is not good for man to be alone.” He needs a help mate. That is when Eve came into the picture. We need men. They are strong, protective, and fun to have around, but we also need women. Women are sensitive and caring. Men and women were created to work together and balance each other out. They work amazingly together. Without one or the other, the world would be completely different. 

Beauty is not just an outward thing. Beauty mostly comes from the heart. You can be a great looking person on the outside but there has to be something inside you making you happy and giving you life. Inward beauty comes from having joy, peace, love, respect, trust, and much more.

When someone is truly beautiful on the inside it shows on the outside. 
I recently had a run in with that. I was not really having a great week. I felt like crud, and was sure I looked like it too. At work one night, one of my coworkers said “You’re smile is so bright, there must be a new guy in your life.” 
In reality, it was just the opposite; a guy had just walked out of my life but I had a new found joy and happiness in being single. 

When I told him that there wasn’t one he asked “why doesn’t a beautiful young girl like you have a boyfriend?” I had been asked that two or three times that week. I honestly would assume that it’s one of three things, that the right guy isn’t in my life right now, it isn’t the right time, or he just hasn’t stepped up to the plate yet. The time will come and I’ll be completely overjoyed and so glad that I didn’t settle for anyone else. 

I want to be the kind of girl that’s beautiful on the inside and outside. I want my inward beauty to be so apparent that it can’t help but shine through and make me so joyful that people stop and say, “wow, there’s something’ different about her.” I want to be the “help mate/life saver” that I was intended, as a woman, to be.