This message gives me hope because, let’s face it, our physical beauty is always changing even lack of sleep affects how we look. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in.” (The Message) Hope “What matters is not your outer appearance-the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes-but your inner disposition. 1 Peter 3:4-6 explains what kind of beauty God is interested in: What if that longing to be beautiful is from God, but it’s really pointing us towards something else? In God’s economy we are never more beautiful than when we are reflecting Him, his character and beauty, to the world around us. When we measure ourselves again them we can end up feeling frumpy and dumpy. We see it plastered all over the media: thin, young women with perfect makeup and hair. And when the gray streak at my temples spread throughout my hair, I ran out and had it dyed.Įvery woman wants to feel beautiful, but maybe the world’s definition of beauty points us in the wrong direction. I looked in the mirror and saw the smile lines around my eyes extending down to my cheeks. Suddenly I started aging more quickly than ever before. I always said I’d never dye my hair because I didn’t like the message it gave: to be beautiful, you have to look young. “A woman who feels beautiful IS beautiful, at any age,” I thought. She taught me that true beauty comes from inner confidence and knowing who you are. Middle-aged women face wrinkles and graying hair.Īs a girl I l watched my mother style her hair, put on light makeup, and dress with care every day. I was 31 when I married, and I certainly wanted to be as beautiful as possible on my wedding day.īut if women reach the height of their physical attractiveness at 31, what hope does that leave for the rest of us? Younger women struggle with acne. I read once that women reach the height of their beauty at age 31. My 5 year old neighbor, who wears a princess crown, and my 89 year old mother-in-law, who visits the hair salon every week, have something in common: they both want to be beautiful! That longing to be attractive must be part and parcel of being a woman.
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