Defining Beauty

What is your definition of beauty?

Is it the way you look?
Is it the size of jeans you wear?
Is it the number on the scale?
Is it the color or style of hair you have?
Are you beautiful only if you are lean..thin?
Are you beautiful if you are completely toned and "in shape" according to what we read in the mags?

Do you define whether or not you are beautiful if you go to the gym six days a week?
Or if you eat under 1000 calories a day, or maybe even less?
Is it how you see yourself in the mirror?
Does it depend on if you are in a relationship with a guy?
Or does it depend on how much attention you gain from them?

Really, think about it.

What is it that defines your beauty in your mind?

For me it was the way I looked in the mirror. It was how "toned" my stomach was.
It was how many times I worked out, or how "well" I could eat.
It depended on the complements I received.
Honestly, I could go on, and to be honest, all the questions I asked earlier must somewhat have to do with my old definition of beauty because I'm the one that came up with them....

And then there was a day where I realized these things were all a lie. They were not the true definitions of beauty.

Don't get me wrong here. I believe we have a responsibility to take care of our bodies, to eat well, get exercise.
I love getting my hair done, getting mani's or pedi's once in a while.
I love to dress according to seasons, and have fun with fashion.

These things are not bad.
They just cannot define whether or not we are beautiful.

We can't compare ourselves to others in order to see whether we are beautiful or not.

GOD created us BEAUTIFULLY. WONDERFULLY. Just as my favorite verse in Psalm 139 says,

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; you works are wonderful, I know that full well.
 Psalm 139:13-14

Do we believe this?
I do.
After reading this verse every single day for 3 weeks, I began to seriously see a change in the way I saw myself.
Do it, I challenge you to put this somewhere that you will see it everyday, and READ IT.

BELIEVE IT.

Britt