Being Beautiful

Beauty. Beauty is something that everyone is aware of. It is magnetic, we are drawn to it. And being a woman I think I strive for beauty more that a man would. As a woman I was created to be beautiful because females are created in the image of God to reflect Him uniquely. (Much like men reflect God's image uniquely).

To see God would be to see the culmination of all beauty in the entire universe. Take a moment and imagine the greatness of such beauty!

Yet, as a woman I struggle to see the beauty God has created in me. I not only struggle but am shocked when people see it and tell me about it. (WHAT! Beauty, me?)

There are times, however, when I see it for a moment, it is fleeting and soon forgotten but sometimes if I look quickly I can cat a glimpse of it. And now more than ever God is showing me when I am being beautiful, not looking beautiful.

If God is the ultimate of all things beautiful it would make sense that the closer we are to being godly the more beautiful we become. ahhh, beauty can be so confusing.

Being beautiful is also often misunderstood by us fair females, we exchange being beautiful for doing beautiful. I try to do beautiful all the time, which results in a white washed tomb of a soul and complete exhaustion!

There is so much pressure to do beautiful. Right now my house needs cleaning, there is work waiting for me in the office, I have phone calls to make but I am sitting on my deck waiting for Jesus to come and make me beautiful.

My life right now, at this exact moment has become amazingly simple. As of the end of June I have no job. As of today I have no plan.

And Jesus loves me.

And I feel beautiful.

I am not doing anything - I am just being...