I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard that phrase. To some, it's a cliche, and yet, it's so very true, like another well-known quote that comes to mind, "Stop & smell the roses."
Ladies, think about all the things we do outwardly to appear beautiful.
Some of us dye our hair, tan our skin, wear makeup, fry our hair with rollers or straighteners, suffer ridiculous diets to lose weight, and even have surgery to enhance or enlarge certain features.
All for what? So that we can look like the standard for beauty, created by mainstream media? Why do we always want to look like someone else, and usually someone famous? Do we ever stop to consider our uniqueness? Not one of us has the same DNA, the same fingerprint. Some of us are red-headed and some brunette; some blue-eyed and some brown-eyed; some are slim and some are curvy; some have moles and others have dimples. We were each perfectly formed in the womb, each of us with distinct differences that make us special.
A beautiful woman is not that which we see displayed in Hollywood films, pageants, or fashion magazines.
So what is beauty?
The woman who wipes tears from a child's eyes as she rocks them in her arms to comfort their fears.
The nurse who sits & holds the hand of a dying man.
The wife who honors her husband and is faithful to him.
The grandmother who is passing on her secret recipes to her granddaughter.
The mother who wakes in the middle of the night to hold & nurse her whimpering babe, murmuring sweet words of love.
The wife who wakes up before her husband at the crack of dawn, to make his breakfast and kiss him goodbye as he leaves for work.
A woman's beauty is like her virtue - it comes from a pure heart and it cannot be seen from the eyes of the world. It can only be seen by those who have that same beauty within them.
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