I have been confronted lately with the belief that a person’s worth is based, in some part at least, by their physical appearance. Toddlers participating in beauty pageants are judged on whether or not they are “facially gifted”. A man decides to make concessions in the area of physical beauty and gets to know a woman anyway, acting as if she should be grateful that he lowered his standards for her and makes a point of letting her know that. I find it sad that while he describes that same woman as strong, analytical, honest, funny, interesting, intelligent, and supportive, it does not outweigh the fact that she is not facially gifted.
How awesome that God sees the heart….where true beauty and true ugliness lie! What a difference it makes when He sees us through eyes of love. He sees us as being so beautiful that he paid the ultimate price just so He could spend eternity with us. How different would our world be if we could use those same eyes of love and see beauty for what it really is? How many people have we overlooked because we defined people by what they looked like rather than who they were? Just sayin’
Signed….a strong, analytical, honest, funny, interesting, intelligent, and supportive woman
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