I have been working at Wal-Mart this summer to pad up my bank account before I head over to Africa. I get a whole hour off for lunch, I only need a ½ hour so I spend the rest of the time reading the book Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge . I have heard that this book is amazing by many of my friends, but I am not one to follow the crowd so I became resolute about not reading it. 

Once I started reading it, I realized the real gem that it is. It is a wonderful book and I encourage you to read it. It is like Wild at Heart for a woman. They go into a women's heart and the desires that God has put in that heart. I have been learning how important beauty is to women. Beauty is more than just vanity.  Beauty is something that God gave every woman. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! God made you Beautiful. Beauty is in all of us, we do not have to wear make-up, have clear skin, wear the right clothes, or even wear clothes that match. Beauty is in your heart. Women long for Beauty, they want to be beautiful.  God placed that desire in their hearts.

The thing that we do not realize is that we are already beautiful. God gave all women beauty. We have let our culture bury our beauty underneath all the magazines, super models, television, and the internet. We believe the commercials that we need this to look beauty; we cannot be beautiful without this or that. We believe this not because the marketing is so good, but because we have believed the lies that we have learned from previous experiences, that our hurts and heartaches have taught us. We let the lies steal away our beauty.

We are beautiful. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! You are beautiful not because of what you have done and not because of your appearance but because you have the fingerprints of God all over you.