Sarah Markley (http://www.sarahmarkley.com/) has started a 5 day series on Beauty. She has challenged her readers to blog about beauty as well. I don't know that I can pare down my thoughts into a single blog post so I've decided to challenge myself to post about beauty for the next 5 days as well. This seems completely doable on Monday morning, but we'll see if I can actually make it once I get into my week.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"...it's a statement I've heard all my life. Society tries to dictate how we perceive beauty. Magazines, television, movies - they all seem to say that I have to be tall, super thin, long hair, tan, etc. to be considered beautiful. It's different in other countries. Some see heavier or curvy women as beautiful and others may base it on skin tone. The point is that every culture has a definition of beauty - and you either have it or you don't. By the world's standards, most of us just don't measure up.
Most of us struggle with the issue of beauty at one time or another. For some of us, it's a daily struggle. I'm working to change the way I think of beauty...Beauty is in the eye of the Creator. God made each one of us unique (Psalm 139). It's intentional. The world would be a very boring place if we were all clones of each other. He created each of us with our own unique beauty.
May we see each other through His eyes and understand that we are all beautiful.
I think of "Beauty in the eye of the beholder" as God has made us all different and different people are attracted to different traits. What one might consider beautiful another may not. ANd your right...if we were all made to look like super models, then every man would have to think a super model was beautiful. And there are men that do not see them as that. I think its not all physical traits either, I think you can fall in love with someone's personality as well. And their personality can make them beautiful. ANd I think we are hardest on ourselves when it comes to fitting the standard for beauty. We are our worst critic. Some people spend their entire lives searching for perfection....but what really is perfection? Its all in the eye of the beholder.
ReplyDeleteThese posts are beautiful, Mandi. Thank you for sharing them with us!
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