The ReSpelling of Beautiful
Has a word ever become old to you? You know a word you use or hear so much that sooner or later it begins to fade into the backdrop of your vocabulary. The meaning begins to lose authenticity and suddenly you find yourself in search of another word to convey its meaning. I think that's happened to the word "beautiful". We use the word beautiful to describe so many things these days. We are a marvelous creation, that we would all have such diverse opinions and perspectives as to what constitutes beauty. That in itself is beautiful. But I belive somewhere along the way, real beauty has lost its way. Beauty walking in and out of movies, books and media ads for lotions, make-up, and miracle pills all in hopes of finding its way back to the heart. The respelling of beautiful took on meaning one day when my husband sat up and said, "that's it, be-you-till-full!". I've been taking this word apart ever since then, asking God to redefine this word to me in the context He intended when He inspired the penned words "fearfully and wonderfully made". Is it possible? Could it really be as simple as "just be you". Just Be
You"...some ladies really have this figured out. Or maybe we think they do
because sometimes it seems that everyone has it more together than we do
in certain areas. But nobody’s immune to the journey it takes to get
where they are. Sometimes being you
is awkward and takes some fumbling around and most times it takes great
courage, but tapping into the original blueprint of you, requires that you be bold and just be you. Faults, quirks, beauties and all. Every situation
needs a response from you. A fitting response that can only come
from the many many layers that make up you.
And it seems that every life season calls for another layer of you. The enemy’s voice tries to tell us
that we must look outward to find out who we are or who we need to be in that
process of that change. When all the while, the blueprint is inward. Embracing
what God weaved together from the start can only be found in relation to Him in
relationship with HIM. This is true fullness that reveals true beauty. Searching
for beauty outside of that leads to a feelings of inferiority, stress and
emptiness. Fullness is found in embracing what God designed. Everything
else is counterfeit.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart...Jere. 1:5
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Psa. 139:13
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