Thursday, August 09, 2007

Beauty

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Written by Krista, from Musings of a Lady.

There once was a girl. She was of average stature and beauty. Just an ordinary girl. Not exactly drop-dead gorgeous according to the world's standards, but not ugly either. She was just in between. Somedays, she looked radiant and felt radiant. On others, she look all right and felt all right. And then on some days, she felt horrid and saw herself as hideous.

She was hideous. On her worst days, her attitude wasn't at its best. In fact, it was at its worst. But it wasn't a constant hideousness. One day it was a whining ugly thing, prone to pity parties. "Why would anyone love me?!" it cried.

The next it was angry and spiteful. "I detest this!"

It could also play depressed and resigned, a close kindred to the pity-partying sort. "No use of trying," it would sigh.

That bad, bad attitude.

Every day, the girl's eyes changed. It was as if she changed her glasses for a new pair every morning when she woke up. The view was different every time. But, the only change was in our non-heroine's attitude. However, just like her glasses, her attitude colored the view of her world - and of herself.

It was on the bad days that she looked ugly to herself. It was on her good days that she was pleased with her appearance. And on the days that weren't bad or wonderful, she was just in the middle.

When she was angry or frustrated, she would feel like tearing into the world. Every flaw and irritation stood out. Every blemish in her appearance was appearant as well. She had skinny wrists, hair that half waved and half frizzled, and awkward feet. She looked like a fourteen year old. Puddleglum had nothing compared to this girl in her worst moods.

When she was happy and joyful, the hair was still frizzy, her wrists still skinny, and her feet still huge. But she was more forgiving of them, less apt to rage and grouch over them.

Finally the connection hit. Ugly attitude equals feeling ugly.

Major breakthrough here for our heroine.

Why continue in such an unlovely atittude, when all that it breeds is more of a bad attitude? Why be ugly, when you know that it makes your behavior ugly to those who see you as well as to yourself?

This girl has now decided that as ugly attitudes are not beauty enhancing, but more importantly not honoring to God, that bad attitudes are out and good attitudes are in. It is true: true beauty is within; that beauty that is within shines out and transforms the outward appearance as well. Especially in the eyes of the one who bears the attitude. Perhaps this is a way that God is showing this girl how truly ugly sin is in His eyes? Hm.

What think you?

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