Beautiful

Tan skin, white skin, black hair, brown hair, black eyes, blue eyes, straight hair, curly hair, what's beautiful? Are blue eyes more beautiful than brown, is brown skin more beautiful than white? The Lord has told us "you are altogether beautiful, my love, there is no flaw in you" (sgs. 4:7). If the Lord has told us this it has to be true, and yet we spend hundreds of dollars on beauty products, hair dye, bronzing lotion, whitening cream and yet the Lord has told us we're already beautiful the way He made us. We don't even have one flaw. We are altogether beautiful. Here in Thailand it's so funny because they love white skin. Everywhere you turn you find whitening lotion, face cream, even whitening foot scrub (why your feet need to be white I'll never know), and yet in America, where we have white skin, we strive to have that beautiful bronze skin. We spend tons of money to sit under a UV light and we rub the cream on our skin hoping it will just be beautiful, yet we already have the skin the Thai people are craving and they have the skin we want. In America so many people put so much time into shaving their arms and they don't want any hair on their arms and here they love it. I think the girls straight hair is beautiful, and they all want curly hair. I look at all these girls here and all I see is beauty and they look at me and they see beauty, so maybe that's telling us something. "WE ARE BEAUTIFUL, EXACTLY AS WE ARE". Whoever decided that brown skin was more beautiful than white, or that white skin is more beautiful than brown? God didn't make a mistake in creating anyone, and He has told us we're already altogether beautiful. You don't need make-up, or affirmation from anyone because the one whose words mean the most looks at you and is stunned by your beauty. And God sees past all the junk we try to use to make us beautiful. He sees straight to the heart and he sees beauty. He doesn't see any flaws at all. I want to see with God-glasses. I want to see the beauty in everything....."He has made everything beautiful....." (ecc. 3:11). I want to see the beauty that goes straight to the heart. I want to know that I am beautiful because my creator says I am, not because of the color of my skin, or how much money I spend on my hair, or the type of clothes that I wear but because the Creator of the Universe and the Creator of me says, "Andrea, you are altogether beautiful, my love, there is not one flaw in you".