A More Beautiful You

[israelmybeloved]

I love this song by Jonny Diaz


Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine
Says she wants to look that way
But her hair isn't straight her body isn't fake
And she's always felt overweight

Well little girl fourteen I wish that you could see
That beauty is within your heart
And you were made with such care your skin your body and your hair
Are perfect just the way they are

There could never be a more beautiful you
Don't buy the lies disguises and hoops they make you jump through
You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do
So there could never be a more beautiful you

Little girl twenty-one the things that you've already done
Anything to get ahead
And you say you've got a man but he's got another plan
Only wants what you will do instead

Well little girl twenty-one you never thought that this would come
You starve yourself to play the part
But I can promise you there's a man whose love is true
And he'll treat you like the jewel you are

So turn around you're not too far
To back away be who you are
To change your path go another way
It's not too late you can be saved
If you feel depressed with past regrets
The shameful nights hope to forget
Can disappear they can all be washed away
By the one who's strong can right your wrongs
Can rid your fears dry all your tears
And change the way you look at this big world
He will take your dark distorted view
And with His light He will show you truth
And again you'll see through the eyes of a little girl

[israelmybeloved]

[FaithInChrist]

I love this song too. I want to share a small moment between my daughter and I that transpired earlier this summer. There was a question in my bible study handbook that brought this memory to the forefront and I just had to write it down. It is amazing what other's see in us when we walk with the Lord.

"I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Earlier this summer I walked out of my bedroom to go to the kitchen. As I walked past my daughter she looked at me and said. "Mama, you are so beautiful today". I said, "thank you Brittney". She looked at me and said "I mean it, you look really really pretty". I just smiled, because I didn't have a pat of make-up on my face. My eyeleahses were invisible because no mascara had been applied. I had however just finished praying and praising God, and was enveloped in the Holy Spirit. I was radiating the Glory of our God, our wonderful God is the link to eternal life, and eternal beauty, when He is in your heart people can see His Glory in your eyes.. He knows what our bodies and our souls need. Yes we are fearfully and wondefully made."

I have to add, on that same day, I touched an open sore on my body and asked for healing. I had surgery over a year ago to remove a chemo-port. The one inch scar never healed. It kept filling with pus and fluid and opening, to scab up and do the same thing over and over again. At this point the one inch scar was thick, was raised quite a bit and it looked like and open cut. I looked at myself in the mirror and touched this spot on my chest and asked God if he would please heal my wound. It was an afterthought, after praying for over an hour. I was brushing my teeth and heading out of my room to start my day. Since that time, the wound had closed (within a week it closed). Not only did the wound close, the scar laid down, nearly 100% flat on my chest, and instead of being an angry red color, it is now a pale pink. It still continues to improve, and I know that God's hand is what healed that wound that refused to heal. I thank God everyday for all the blessings I have, but it is really funny how such a small little thing, like a one inch wound, can serve as a constant reminder to me of how powerful and wonderful God is. I love you so much my Dear Lord, thank you for all your blessings.

[mattfivefour]

Faith, the story you recount made me think of these words to women from the apostle Peter: "Let not your beauty come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful." (Taken from 1 Peter 3)

My first wife used to worry as she approached her 60's about her fading beauty and tried hard to present a nice exterior. My second wife, Vicki, also spends time before we go out trying to "make herself look beautiful". I appreciate both of their efforts to look pretty; but I am far more impressed with the beauty my first wife had and my new wife has: the beauty, as Peter said, of their inner selves ... selves conformed to the image of Christ. Yes they are both outwardly beautiful, but it is their inner beauty that attracts me and which attracts others to Jesus Christ. May all of us—males as much as female—be concerned with that latter; for when people see the beauty of Christ within us, they are drawn to Him.

[rosdanic]

Thanks for this nice song.

[Meg]

I love this song too. I want to share a small moment between my daughter and I that transpired earlier this summer. There was a question in my bible study handbook that brought this memory to the forefront and I just had to write it down. It is amazing what other's see in us when we walk with the Lord.

"I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Earlier this summer I walked out of my bedroom to go to the kitchen. As I walked past my daughter she looked at me and said. "Mama, you are so beautiful today". I said, "thank you Brittney". She looked at me and said "I mean it, you look really really pretty". I just smiled, because I didn't have a pat of make-up on my face. My eyeleahses were invisible because no mascara had been applied. I had however just finished praying and praising God, and was enveloped in the Holy Spirit. I was radiating the Glory of our God, our wonderful God is the link to eternal life, and eternal beauty, when He is in your heart people can see His Glory in your eyes.. He knows what our bodies and our souls need. Yes we are fearfully and wondefully made."

I have to add, on that same day, I touched an open sore on my body and asked for healing. I had surgery over a year ago to remove a chemo-port. The one inch scar never healed. It kept filling with pus and fluid and opening, to scab up and do the same thing over and over again. At this point the one inch scar was thick, was raised quite a bit and it looked like and open cut. I looked at myself in the mirror and touched this spot on my chest and asked God if he would please heal my wound. It was an afterthought, after praying for over an hour. I was brushing my teeth and heading out of my room to start my day. Since that time, the wound had closed (within a week it closed). Not only did the wound close, the scar laid down, nearly 100% flat on my chest, and instead of being an angry red color, it is now a pale pink. It still continues to improve, and I know that God's hand is what healed that wound that refused to heal. I thank God everyday for all the blessings I have, but it is really funny how such a small little thing, like a one inch wound, can serve as a constant reminder to me of how powerful and wonderful God is. I love you so much my Dear Lord, thank you for all your blessings.

What a lovely testimony and such a lovely thread. The song/poem in the OP should be copied and sent to young women everywhere.

While I'm at it, I would like to give thanks for good Christian husbands everywhere. You gentlemen are such a blessing to your wives, families and everyone around you! (Yes, Robert, that includes you )

[LivnForChrist]

I love this song too. I want to share a small moment between my daughter and I that transpired earlier this summer. There was a question in my bible study handbook that brought this memory to the forefront and I just had to write it down. It is amazing what other's see in us when we walk with the Lord.

"I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Earlier this summer I walked out of my bedroom to go to the kitchen. As I walked past my daughter she looked at me and said. "Mama, you are so beautiful today". I said, "thank you Brittney". She looked at me and said "I mean it, you look really really pretty". I just smiled, because I didn't have a pat of make-up on my face. My eyeleahses were invisible because no mascara had been applied. I had however just finished praying and praising God, and was enveloped in the Holy Spirit. I was radiating the Glory of our God, our wonderful God is the link to eternal life, and eternal beauty, when He is in your heart people can see His Glory in your eyes.. He knows what our bodies and our souls need. Yes we are fearfully and wondefully made."

I have to add, on that same day, I touched an open sore on my body and asked for healing. I had surgery over a year ago to remove a chemo-port. The one inch scar never healed. It kept filling with pus and fluid and opening, to scab up and do the same thing over and over again. At this point the one inch scar was thick, was raised quite a bit and it looked like and open cut. I looked at myself in the mirror and touched this spot on my chest and asked God if he would please heal my wound. It was an afterthought, after praying for over an hour. I was brushing my teeth and heading out of my room to start my day. Since that time, the wound had closed (within a week it closed). Not only did the wound close, the scar laid down, nearly 100% flat on my chest, and instead of being an angry red color, it is now a pale pink. It still continues to improve, and I know that God's hand is what healed that wound that refused to heal. I thank God everyday for all the blessings I have, but it is really funny how such a small little thing, like a one inch wound, can serve as a constant reminder to me of how powerful and wonderful God is. I love you so much my Dear Lord, thank you for all your blessings.

I don't know how I missed this testimony. Anyway, it is another example
of God's goodness. I think this is a wonderful thread as we all need to be
reminded that true beauty is within.

[livin_in_the_Son]

When I was growing up, my mother would always say "don't talk ugly". The admonition was a reminder that our words and actions are what people will come to 'see' when they are in our company. I always tell my children how beautiful they are, physically, but I also use the same phrase to remind them when their attitudes aren't so becoming.

There is a saying that a truly beautiful person can be truly ugly, and a truly ugly person, can be truly beautiful. Again it's all about a person's heart.

[FaithInChrist]

My daughter and I were talking about this just last week. I was driving her to her job and I asked her if she remembered this moment. She did. I told her I had just been praying and was overcome by the Holy Spirit (I hadn't told her that last summer when this happened), she teared up, saying she missed being that close to Jesus and she was going to start praying more and start going back to church, she is in high school and her demands of classes, choir, theater and work had made it very difficult for her to also be active in church. She is still very busy, but she is willing to give some things up in order to have more time for Jesus.

Our Lord, continues to work through us, how we respond to things in our lives really does influence others. We might think we are only affecting ourselves when we act certain ways, but our actions affect everybody around us, and their actions affect everybody around them and so on and so forth.