|
Inner beauty is not a
mushy-gushy nougat at the
center of your being.
It's
not a fluffy-fuzzy glow
beneath the surface of
your skin.
Inner beauty is
an incredible force of
power
that transcends all
the ugliness of the
outside world.
Love answers easily to
love.
Hope fills to
overflowing when the
horizon looks promising.
Peace floats smoothly on a
calm sea.
Graciousness
abounds when life is good.
Yet, as we all well know,
life is never 'all good'.
It takes a fierce amount
of strength to face hatred
with love,
hopelessness
with hope, tribulation
with peace, and hurt with
grace.
Inner beauty is an
indestructible diamond
that finds enough light to
reflect itself in a world
gone dark.
Left to our own devices,
love, hope, peace and
grace are easily trampled
beneath the monstrous feet
of greed, jealousy, envy,
regret, pain and hatred.
Outside support is good
and well and kind,
but it
cannot address what it
cannot see.
It cannot
petition turmoil face to
face - in the place where
it lives.
Issues that
reside at the heart level,
the soul level, need
inside support.
When you're weak and
weary, when you're tired
of being tired,
look
within for the source of
your strength.
Look inside
for respite from a harsh
world.
Look deep, look
long and look hard for the
beautiful dwelling within
you.
Look for God inside
yourself.
No...... inner beauty
isn't mushy or gushy or
fluffy or fuzzy.
It
doesn't need compliments,
recognition or
reinforcement to be
beautiful.
It is an
Almighty force - alive and
beautiful -
that moves you
on an upward road every
minute of every day of
your life.
© Terri McPherson
Windsor, Ontario,
Canada
Please send Terri an Email ...
~My
Heartfelt Thanks to Terri !!!
  
~Made with Love!~
  
|
