Beautiful....

I thought I had today's blog all figured out until a former student ( whom I love and adore) posted on facebook that someone told her she needed to wear makeup. This girl is a natural beauty! I am not gorgeous, I am overweight and yet I know I am a beautiful person. Why? well part of it is because I know God has made me beautiful, part is my husband always tells me how lucky he is to have such a beautiful wife and mostly because I am beautiful on the inside.

As a teacher I have taught some gorgeous students. Just plain out physically attractive. On the outside that is. i see it everyday. society has grown a generation of beauty gurus. the crimp and straighten and paint on their war paint to perfection. But would they help an elderly lady carry groceries. do they thank someone for holding the door open for them? No - they cheer when there is a fight - they clap when a girl gets her extensions ripped from her head. I have seen ugly things come out of these babies mouths.

beauty is like my former student - who lent an ear and a shoulder to a student who lost a grandparent. Who hugged her teacher after she returned from burying her father. Beauty is the young man who cleans my whiteboard just because it needs to be done. or the man who stood up to another student because the popular (supposedly beautiful) kids were picking on one of his friends.

"Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. " 1st Peter 3:3-4.

My prayer for my granddaughters, my daughters, me and for you my friends is that we stand up as Christians and redefine beauty for this generation.

Debi