Making Herself Beautiful

I'm Reading this book called 'Beautiful Girlhood'. It is a really good book so far and has really made me think about things different. Here is something that I just read and think that it is something that all girls should read.

Sometimes, much to my amusement, I read in the magazines those comical letters that girls write to the beauty specialists. If these letters could all be put together into one it would read something like this: "How am I to make myself pretty so that I shall be admired for my good looks? I want to be rid of all my blemishes, my freckles and pug nose and pimples and stringy hair. I would have my hands very white and shapely and tender, and I would be neither too fat nor too lean. Tell me, Miss Specialist, how to make myself beautiful." The wise man of old has answered this question in words that are most appropriate: "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised."

Every girl is a lover of beauty. Beautiful homes, beautiful furnishings, beautiful flowers, beautiful fruits, beautiful faces--anything wherein beauty is found, there will be found girls to admire it. From the time her little hands can reach up and her baby lips can lisp the words, she is admiring "pretty things". And when a little of that beauty is her own, her pleasure is unbounded.

Every girl longs to be beautiful. There is in a woman a nature, as deep as humanity, that compels her to strive for good looks. There is no more forlorn sorrow for a young girl than for her to be convinced that she is hopelessly ugly and undesirable. Oh, the bitter tears that have been shed over freckles or a rough and pimply skin! and the energy that has been expended in painting and powdering and frizzing and curling herself into beauty!

A desire to be beautiful is not unwomanly. A woman who is not beautiful cannot properly fill her place. But, mark you, true beauty is not her face, but of the soul. There is a beauty so deep and lasting that it will shine out of the homeliestface and make it comely.

This is the beauty to be first sought and admired. It is a quality of the mind and heart and is manifested in words and deed. A happy heart, a smiling face, loving words and deeds, and a desire to be of service will make any girl beautiful.

God made you the person that you are. Don't cover it up or try to make yourself any better.

Blessings!