Just a thought...

"Good Morning!
You're beautiful with God's beauty.
Beautiful inside and out!
God be with you"
Luke 1:27-28


These words are the words the angel spoke to Mary when he told her she would bear Jesus. To be so beautiful, she must have had such a pursuit after God. So much so, God was chasing her to have his one and only son.
When you think of a guy wanting to date you, one of your first short prayers is" Please God, let him see me as beautiful." But how many times do I pray " God please see me as beautiful." I know it sounds cheesy, but honestly. Just because he made me, does not mean that I should not long for his art to still be beautiful in his eyes.
Mary's beauty went one step closer to God. She was full of His beauty. His beauty cannot even compare to our ideas. Beautiful to God has nothing to do with the outward appearance: the hair, weight, acne, etc. He see's the inside. The passion, the longing for his presence. That heart that is pursuing His like Mary's. In Mary he saw the beauty he had first created. The heart beauty.

Im no theologian, but instead of getting overhwhelmed with the way we look and stressed out because we are not the image society sees, we need to remember which beauty really counts. Getting back to the beauty of God is our focus. Like Mary, I need to pursue after God's heart because when Im falling in even more in love with Jesus, that is when my true beauty shines.

Inside out, not Outside in.