This week, we are sharing a link to a post about the beauty God has created. Read it, think it over, and come back and share your thoughts.
Over the years, I have sung that song from “West Side Story”—“I feel pretty, oh so pretty!” and have laughed. I felt anything BUT pretty. I have spent my entire lifetime feeling unattractive.
To be truthful, I was somewhat taught that I was not pretty. I could share a litany of comments from various people in my life: “You’ll never be beautiful so work on your personality.” “Your friend is pretty and you are smart. That’s just the way it is.” And one of my personal favorites when I was considering serving a mission as a young adult: “You’re not ugly enough to go on a mission.” Ugly? Enough? Uh, OK…
So you can imagine how I felt when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and told that I had to have a mastectomy… {Read More}
My favorite part is at the end when she stated that “God creates beauty. God created me. And he did a good job.”
How awesome is that?!
Loved this article. Loved, loved, loved it.
Women can never hear enough of messages like this one.
Don’t the women you meet get prettier and prettier the more you get to kow them? Well my friends do.
A friend of mine recently had breast cancer and I went to visit her during her treatments. One day she had hair, and the next time I visited her she didn’t. When she answered the door the second time, completely bald, I was blown away by how beautiful her eyes were. How had I not noticed that before? That part of Merilee’s article struck a cord with me because of that experience.
Beauty is everywhere.
I loved this article as well. Having struggled with my own self-perceptions that were incorrect, and having experienced the Lord’s miraculous healing, I can relate a little to what Merrilee Boyack shares here.
I also love how she gets to the core of worth and beauty — it’s because of God that we are beautiful, and beauty really is, as they say (as trite as it can sound), more than skin deep. So much more.