Where is your Beauty?

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
- Liv Tyler


A person's spirit and true personality/character is a beautiful thing ...well it *can* be if it is the right kind. If it is one that is wholly focused and made up of nothing but God and His word then you have begun in a beautiful direction. If you set anything else up as what makes you to be you then you can't help but go down into destruction. So set yourself up strong...build yourself up with educational things: parents, God's Word, prayer, solid and drama-free friends, good books/music and a continual and primary development of a Christian life. This would include time spent in the Word and time spent on your knees. But it also includes time spent just soaking in our Father's words to *us*...just listening to Him, not just hogging all our time talking to Him and not seeking any answers or advice. Simple time spent selflessly seeking His will in our lives. Without that we aren't really looking to put Him first...we want to dictate and lead our lives according to whatever we want ultimately. Something I've learned recently is that even though we think ourselves wise and smart...we really don't know what is good for us. I've come to slowly realize that my parents really *do* love me and they know sooo much better then I do what is really *good* for me. Now we need to define "good". Good is not what appears to be good...nothing that appears to be good is good. Rather, that which "doesn't" look fun or exciting is good. That is what our parents seek for us and we push it away without seeing that it really is the very best for us. It's hard...but taking time to step back and see the reasons why we are asked to do or not do specific things that we don't think are good can open our eyes to see the truth and help us realize continually more and more how much those who are older and wiser are just trying their very best to guide us to the straight and narrow pathway.