Anyone can show forth glimpses of short-lived eye-appeal; but a beautiful heart, which extends beyond skin-deep or surface level, radiates throughout an enduring track record with few unattractive snippets during off times. The reverse is also true. Ugliness can be seen transparently through a beautiful external facade.
When we willingly admit, recognize and renounce negative, ugly behaviors and patterns that are to be cleansed from our mental pallette, we are no longer doomed to repeat them again and again. Not until we do such cleansing, can we "hold" with consistency the Truth of our being which is purity, love, and beauty. Then we will experience beauty by radiating it in all areas of our lives. This kind of beauty transcends appearance and becomes likened to a most brilliant gold-dust in every facet of our lives--God-dust.
"...What matters is not your outer appearance--the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes--but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in" (I Peter 3:3-4) The Message.
(c) 2010 Ethel Russell-Ajisomo
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