by ReNay
We are fighting lies with their opposites–looking for truth on the other side of the pendulum. As I watch the world around me and honestly process my own changing body, I have come to the conclusion that we all process a question in various depths, shapes and forms:
QUESTION #1:
Am I Beautiful?
Some of you may disagree, but consider with me all of the guises this question holds. Am I valuable, worthy, liked, dignified, good enough? However, in an aesthetically driven world, these questions are usually consolidated and answered in what we can see and manipulate–Am I Attractive?
We fear not being seen as beautiful.
Many would answer in hasty certainty––Of course you are!––In the quick swing to eradicate the fear or possible hurt, we miss the underlying question that delivers the necessary answer not simply covering but curing.
QUESTION #2:
What is Beauty? Therefore, What Does It Mean To Be Beautiful?
Unveiling the answer to this question makes us fearless to any answer of the first.
Because
–The definition does not lie in the changing opinion of the loudest of man–
The answer rests in the Unchanging Definer who is Beauty, Himself. The God of Self-Giving Love whose very breath is LIFE. His Word births wonders that we endlessly explore, still as in awe as if it were the first step. He is Beauty. His character in and through us Beautifies us. A beauty that transcends the limited processing of mere physical sight.
I wrestle in writing this, honestly, because my desire is not to oversimplify a complex reality; much more can be said than what is written here. However, we see and experience the damage of a world that chases after an ever changing definition; impairing ourselves as we search everywhere but here.
But here, in this truth, we find the man or woman whose beauty does not simply satisfy the craving of sight but is balm to the hurting soul. Their presence is the warmth of being known and loved simultaneously.
In them, the physical answer to the first question is made trivial, in light of the second, which is embodied.
In the truth of beauty, you can be fearless to be unbeautiful to a physical standard that rises and falls like a changing tide. When we know this, the answer to our
Enslavement,
Insecurity,
And Hurt
When it comes to beauty
Is intrinsically safe in a reality that is beyond the one where the damage was done in the first place.
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