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Help… I
Don’t Feel Captivating!
Even
if you’ve been wounded by a man—you are STILL lovely!
In
your heart, you may be pleading…
Am
I captivating?
Am
I? Am I?
Am
I lovely?
Whether
you’re asking that of your father, your boyfriend,
your husband, or the Creator of the universe…you
are hoping the answer is a resounding “YES! YES
YOU ARE!”
In
whatever ways you may have been wounded in the past,
it doesn’t change the fact that you are indeed--beautiful!
Beauty
is core to a woman—who she is and what she longs
to be. When we speak of beauty we’re not
talking about having that perfect figure, no wrinkles
and a magazine cover smile.
We’re
talking about a soulish beauty from the heart--that’s
unveiled for all the world to see.
The
only things standing in the way of unveiling our beauty
are doubts, fears and the hiding and striving we fall
to as a result.
We
must stop striving and trying to be perfect—we
must have a heart of rest, letting our defenses down
and allowing our beauty to shine.
Beauty
is powerful--it speaks, it invites, it nourishes, it
comforts, it inspires, it is transcendent. And
that is what the world longs to experience from a woman. The
world needs it—the world needs YOU.
So
rest in the fact that you are captivating, you are
lovely and your…
“beauty
will save the world” –Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Show
me your face, let me hear your voice;
For
your voice is sweet and your face is lovely” --Song
of Songs 2:14
*Content
taken from the book “Captivating: Unveiling the
Mystery of a Woman’s Soul” by John & Stasi
Eldredge. We read it and were encouraged!
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