Thoughts about beauty
I think that God has been working in me and teaching me things that are essential for living. I am loving it and my favorite lesson learned has been about beauty.
This past summer, I went on a mission trip to Connecticut and I got to spend a lot of time around people that were a lot less fortunate than I am. One person there changed my life and he was six. His name was Terrence and he was a small black boy with a giant mother that was kind of mean to me. Everyone at the camp that I worked at thought for sure that Terrence was a trouble child and they treated him as such. I don’t know why, but Terrence and I hit it off and I was designated his personal guardian for the week. I was the one that was supposed to control his anger and his behavior. Instead, Terrence taught me something.
Over the course of my life, I’ve liked a lot of girls. I’ve liked all of them for different reasons and I’ve always thought it would be nice to have a girlfriend. I liked the pretty girls with the nice clothes and the ones that would make me popular. I wanted somebody to share my life with and share myself with. Slowly, as I’ve grown, my standards for girls changed a little bit. I started to see girls in a little bit of a different light and I have found features in these ladies that I really like. Through this girls are teaching me something. They are teaching me about beauty and what it is.
In the Creation account, it says that God created man in His image. I’ve always been taught that this means that God has hands and feet, and a face with a nose and two eyes and somehow has both guy and girl parts. I think that this may be true, but I think that this might mean something more. I have emotions, fears, love, and passion and I didn’t create these things, they came from God and God possesses these same characteristics in the most perfect beautiful form.
In Terrence, there was much anger and resentment towards authority. But, on the last night of the camp when I had to say goodbye, he looked at me with his dark eyes and I looked back and I caught a glimpse of God. In all his confusion, I saw God in him. It was beautiful.
In the different girls that I have liked, there have been attributes that are so breathtakingly beautiful. There have been things that are beautiful but not attractive. There are parts that most people wouldn’t notice, but they are beautiful.
All these things point back to the source of this beauty => God. I know that I can’t hug or kiss God, but I can embrace a person and tell them their worth and I can’t think of anything more rewarding.
Dear God, of all the beautiful things that You have created, the most beautiful thing is You. There are people around me that make me nervous just being around them because You are so bright in them. I don’t even think they know it. I love You and I’m falling for You everyday.
