Beautiful

What is beautiful?
Being a size zero? having perfect hair? perfect clothes?
A person who covers themselves in makeup and beauty products?
The women you see in magazines, are they really beautiful?

Seeing someone smile. That's beautiful.
The love amongst a family. That's beautiful.
Walking through a park in the summer, surrounded by colourful flowers and seeing the children laughing and just enjoying themselves so much. That's beautiful.
Seeing people who are happy with themselves, happy with the way they look, happy with their life. That's beautiful.

A couple of weeks ago i was at Steve and Gill's house, Christine was taking pictures of them in the garden with Lee, Sarah, Alex and Tara. They were all having a laugh and i could see all the love that they had for each other and it was beautiful.

That's another thing that's beautiful, being surrounded by family and friends.


With all these beautiful things, why do people try to change the way they look to make themselves into what they think is beautiful, which is only an image that comes from the media or people around them anyway.

In the bible it says "You should not use outward aids to make yourselves beautiful, such as the way you do your hair, or the jewellery you put on, or the clothes you wear. Instead, your beauty should consist of your true inner self, the ageless beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of the greatest value in God's sight.
(1 Peter 3:3, 4)

We shouldn't focus on our appearance, but on our hearts and our spirit. We should focus on the way we are with other people and on our personality. If we have a beautiful heart and a beautiful personality, then we are beautiful, regardless on out outside appearance.