I was only partially stunned. I reminded her that I fell in love with the beauties I very clearly saw in her before we were married, and none of them involved removing any clothes. Actualy, we never even kissed before our wedding ceremony.

POndering much on this conversation since then led me to this article on true beauty. Satan, media, our culture, evil and conspiring men and many others who are just lost or confused and no nothing better have long focused on the outer beauties of God’s crowning creation, wman, for many reasons. Some of them are greed, it’s hard to sell facelifts to someone who only needs a happier disposition to posess more beeauty. Laziness is also to blame for much of our problem, my sweetheart’s comment, though painful to hear, quickly showed me how I have done an adequate job conveying my pleasure about her physical beauty, but have clearly not been verbal enough or worked hard enough at sharing words and expression and feelings about the multitude of ways I am blessed by the beauty she posesses and offers to me and so many others on a regular basis.

So while I was saddened by her sharing, I resolve to do my part in comunicating the awe I see through the many expressions of her beauty from now on.

I pray God to open my eyes, give words to my feelings, grant power to my utterences unto the convincing of my beauty, just how fully beautiful she is. I know it will involve an active effort on my part. But I feel blessed to have been taught of this necessity.

Thus far I have been reflecting on the beauty I have found in my wife as she carried and delivered and cared for te precious children we have been blessed with. Her beauty is often seen in her courage and determination. Thinking back I recall numerous times how drawn I was to her beautiful smile and the way her face would light up as she reacted to conversations with or the accomplishments of our children. Just seeing her joy and pleasure over someone elses joy and pleasure is a large part of what I find beautiful in her.

Beauty takes many forms of course. And many may not categorize all which I would as part of Beuty. But as I see it, God is love and God is beauty. I fully believe that part of what man has been given in woman is a reflection of the beauty He posesses. With that in mind, my wife shows her beauty to me through her willingness to forgive me and allow me to try again. Her beauty shows through in her caring nature, her faith and her devotion to God, in her creativity morality and virtue, in her willingness to learn and her desire to know God’s will in her life.

I could continue but perhaps in doing so my efforts to communicate to her, versus to this computer screen, will lose momentum. And that would be very sad.

Thanks again for your article and the beautiful moments in our lives together it reminded me of. May your life be filled with awe and wonder and may you have the courage to risk being ever more vulnerable. For with that vulnerability we find occasion to truly show what is most beautiful in each of us. For in such moments of risk, where the reward is never fully certain, we find out who we are really interracting, living, loving and being with. Such is my ongoing prayer.

Since Christ began to change my heart, I have been able to look less on the outward appearance. It is amazing how love for our fellow beings can increase just with this simple change in perspective.

I wish the mother and her child well.

And I wish you well.

Hey, I wish everyone well.