Beauty MarksSample

The Heart of Beauty Marks What makes a woman beautiful? Is it the flawless skin, the tight body, and the long legs that seem to be the standard of “beautiful” if we look through the magazines and billboards? Is the amount of attention that a beautiful woman attracts directly proportional to her physical “beauty points,” and does it all matter? Are we strong, gracious, awesome women of God content with beauty that’s all about skin, curves, and the right kind of leanness? Don’t get us wrong, it is tough work to keep the six-pack abs and the lean thighs and we’re all for advocating physical fitness. But I guess what we’re saying is that we really shouldn’t forget about the laws of time and physics, where, and we say this with much tenderness: we are doomed to watch our well-tended muscles sag and our gorgeous skin wrinkle. Aren’t we all faced with the inevitability of time and death? We wish we could say that beauty is really just skin-deep, that beauty is unimportant, that it’s okay if people call you ugly. But that’s such a taboo word among us women, isn’t it? Why does it hurt so much when people call us ugly? Our theory here in Beauty Marks is simple: we think that we women are created beautiful. To be told that we are UN-beautiful is equal to demeaning our value as women and as God’s creation. We want to redeem what beauty really is. We want to learn of the kind of beauty that glorifies God and isn’t just temporary, contained to this lifetime or world. We’d like to remind ourselves that our beauty as the daughters of God goes beyond the temporary. The question is: if we start thinking this way, will it change the way we live, talk, and deal with other people?