Beauty

Today I ran five miles. During this run I thought about many things, as I often do while I run. I started to think about something that happened last night. We were at the men's house (a christian household of men living together), for a social night, and I was standing in the kitchen with two of my brothers. One of them fixed his hair in the window, I laughed a little, and our other friend thought it was gender role switch. I thought this was really funny. I was like, he really cares that much about his appearance? I don't even that much about my appearance, there are more important things to be concerned with.

Today I started thinking about that last part - "there are more important things to be concerned with." Now, this is just my personal opinion, and some would argue otherwise, I know. However, what I'm getting at is that we don't need to be overly concerned with our appearance. Make sure the hair is at least decent, my favorite is the messy bun :) No smudges, cover the basics with modesty etc, and that's about it. My vocation is as a nursing student, I don't need to be concerned with my appearance, I need to be focused on school. I am called to be a servant of of Christ, I need to be focused on laying my life down for Him. If we're constantly consumed with thinking about whether or not our outfit was fitting for this occasion or if hair is perfect we begin to lose sight of our purpose in life - to know love and serve God.

Now, if you type in "love letter from God" into google you'll find a variety of letters that are compilations of various bible verses. This weekend  I found a new one, that was different than the one I was more familiar with,  here's what it says:

"I made her pretty, but not beautiful because I knew her heart, And I knew she would grow to be vain. I wanted her to search out her heart and lean that only ME in her would make her beautiful..."


It is Christ in us who makes us beautiful. The women who are filled with the joy of the Lord, are the most beautiful. Christ shines through those who are close to Him in ways beyond our greatest imagination.

Sisters - hear me here, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! Just as you are, you are beautiful. The Lord is the root of our beauty. Allow Him into your heart so that He may shine through you. Let us not permit our looks to keep us from serving the Lord in the way we are called. Let us allow our Lord and God, Savior and Redeemer, and Friend to make us beautiful.


You are all beautiful my beloved, and there is no blemish within you. -Song of songs 4:7