Photo: by Dee Kamp Monarch Butterfly on Zinnea
Beauty
is found Inside-out- Not Outside-in
The
local hardware store is the last place in the world I would expect to find
beauty. But one glance at this uncommon face captured my heart.
The
plumbing isle is my least favorite place in the big box hardware store, but
today it was necessary for a home repair. After waiting what seemed a life time
for my husband to sort through the what-ever-a guy- needs- to- fix- a sink thing,
I turned around and there on the other side of the isle a delightful surprise. Standing up perky and looking around from the
child seat was not a child, but one of the homeliest littlest dogs I’ve ever
seen!
He
was just a little mite of a guy, with eyes too big for his head; odd little
pointed ears with one sticking up and the other flopping down. His white and
gray hairs were all spiked and poking around him making him look like he
sported a rock star style hair-do. And
oddly his face seemed to be shaped into an odd little smile. You just had to
laugh at the combination of all this endearing ugliness.
But one didn’t linger long on his odd and
rather strange looks. It was his happy and trusting demeanor that drew you in.
You saw the heart of this little guy through his warm and inviting eyes. It was
this I thought that made him simply beautiful!
“Your beauty should not come from outward
adornment,
such
as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes.
Rather
it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet
spirit
which is of great worth in God’s sight.”
1 Peter 3:2-4
Have
you ever been with someone for awhile and walked away thinking how lovely they
were, how beautiful and sincere they were? And later you really couldn’t remember
at all what they wore that day, or even if they were having a good or bad hair
day? It simply was something beautiful you saw coming from within them.
Oh, the wonder and delight to continuously seek
the Lord and gaze upon His beauty, to dwell in His house and live in His presence. For when we do He fills us with more and more
of Him until we see the real beauty in others with our hearts and not our eyes.
I
pondered later, “Was this yet another one of God’s divine appointments— of the
canine kind?”
Certainly this little dog personified a great
truth about God’s idea of beauty. Simple yet in a profound way, God can use our
everyday life as opportunities to teach us something dear to His heart. Today
for me it was to remember beauty is found inside-out— not outside-in.
“Beauty
is Found inside-out-Not Outside-in” by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries©
July 3, 2013
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