Imagine I give you a gift. It’s huge and beautifully wrapped in your favorite color of wrapping paper and topped with a perfect bow. It promises to be wonderful, but when you shred the paper and tear open the box, there is nothing inside. The box is empty.
Beauty is our wrapping paper. It can make a good present even better and add to our enjoyment, but beautiful wrapping paper alone is not worth anything.
Sadly, our culture seems to focus on our wrapping paper almost to the exclusion of the gift inside. The world whispers that if you are beautiful, everyone will love you, you will feel great, and life will be perfect.
And that’s certainly a handy way to get people to buy makeup, skin products, hair products, brand name clothes, and all the other things that the world says you simply must have in order to be beautiful.
But that is a lie. You do not need to have the perfect face or figure or clothes to be happy, hard as that might be to believe. Your Creator made you beautiful from the first, and He is the only one who will bring you ultimate joy.
My dear, you are beautiful even when you skip your makeup. Each and every one of us, boy or girl, man or woman, is beautiful because we are made in God’s image, and God is Beauty itself.
Here’s another story. A boy was born blind. Eventually he grew into a man and fell in love with a woman who was always kind to him. Though he could not see her face, he felt her heart, and she was beautiful to him.
One day, after they were married, the man was given a chance to get his vision back with a surgery. The surgery was successful, and at last the man could see! Everything was so bright and colorful it hurt his eyes. The first person he saw was his wife, who had been waiting for him all throughout the surgery.
What would he have thought? He wouldn’t mind if she weighed too much or didn’t have makeup on or didn’t have clear skin. He had only known her for her heart and her actions. He would think her beautiful.
Now I’m not saying beauty is a bad thing. In fact, God gave us a beautiful world to live in for our pleasure and his glory. Neither am I saying that you can only be either beautiful or good, because that’s not true. I’m just saying don’t lose the gift for the box. Don’t put so much store in your outward appearance that you don’t take care of your heart.
Think about it. What would the world be like if everyone took the time they spent getting the wrapping paper perfect and instead focused it on touching up the gift inside?
***Allison***
pretty flowers
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Yes! We have a gorgeous row of zinnias in our garden that’s just so fun to photograph. 🙂
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Love your post ❤
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Thank you!
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Awesome💕
Check out my blogs. These are all about the cost effective fashion and beauty tips. Hope you like it 😊
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Thanks!
Okay, I will check them out. 🙂
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I loved this post! I wrote a poem on this a few days ago… would you read it? (I can leave you a link 😊)
I really like your blog 😁
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Thanks so much! Sure, I’ll read it! 😀
Aww, thank you!
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Np, thank you!!
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Here’s the link
http://wp.me/p90Klv-fP 😊
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Great, thanks!
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No, thank you 😊
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😀
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
GOD’S CREATED BEAUTY IS THE BEST!
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Thanks so much!
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Paper bag princess.
Maybe diamonds aren’t a girls best frend. Maybe the stars in her eyes are what really matters in the end. Maybe her dress and shoes don’t match, maybe her hair is tatty and thatched. But maybe, just maybe none of that actually matters.
Maybe it’s the love which truly grasps her. Maybe deep down that’s all she needs. The love of another and a paper bag gown?
By me.
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Aww, that’s sweet! 😀
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Thank you ☺ feel free to share
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What a wonderful and thoughtful post. I love the wrapping paper metaphor!
Excited to keep updated with your blog!
xx
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Aww, thank you so much. 🙂 Yes, I like it too!
Thanks for visiting!
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Nice. http://www.diamondsheart.wordpress.com
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Thanks!
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I agree with this so much.. thank you for this post xo
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Aww, I’m so glad you liked it! Twas my pleasure.
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This gave me inspiration to write my next blog on. My blogs are just my thoughts on life that i never share irl. Don’t think any of you will be interested but give it a try and see.
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I’m glad it inspired you! Okay, I’ll go check out your blog.
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Thank You SO much, I just published the beauty standards blog.
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You’re quite welcome! I commented on your first post, and I will check out your second. 🙂
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Thank you So much!
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Sure thing! 😀
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The flowers are so beautiful! You inspires me today! 🙂
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Aww, thank you so much. 🙂
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So inspiring and motivational. The pictures are lovely. Thank you Allison 😙
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Aww, thank YOU! I’m really glad you liked it, and thanks for commenting!
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Hey girl! Great post. I really like deep meaning and message to all of us. Its true. We are all trying to be perfect, and its really sad when we can just be us. However, i guess thats how the world is nowdays. I am the first one when it comes to buying beauty products or cloths. But i dont think its bad, because i am doing that for myself.
If you want check my blog, i am new here!:) thank you
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Thank you so much! Sure, I don’t think beauty products are bad, I just think sometimes we focus on them too much, to the exclusion of other, better things. 😉
Okay, I’ll check it out!
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That is so true. There is so much more in a world which needs to be explore:) thank you
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♥
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Great photos!
Check out my blog- alyssaciffone.com
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Thank you! Okay, I will.
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NYC WORK DEAR.
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Eh? Sorry, I’m confused. XD
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i mean i love your posts
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Oh, whoops. XD Well thank you SO much! 😀
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Hi!
I love your blog your writing is lovely. I would love it if you checked out my blog, the feedback would be much appreciated! 🙂 https://weenotions.wordpress.com/2017/09/02/doom-gloom/
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Why thank you! Alright, I’ll go check out your blog… 🙂
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WOW!! I love what u wrote it’s so beautiful. Thank you
XX
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Aww, thank you so much!
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Wow such wonderful thoughts about beauty. ❤️
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Aww, thank you!
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Ufff!! This is so beautiful and so perfect.
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Aww, thanks! 😀 Hee hee!
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This was beautiful! Great post!
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Aww, thanks! ♥
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You welcome!
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Wow. Love this ❤
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Aww, thank you!
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Reblogged this on Olamide's Blog.
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Aww, thanks!
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It’s so honest I love it x
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Aww, good! I tried to be. 🙂
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Very pretty pictures! Those flowers are lovely 🙂
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I know, I think they’re beautiful too!
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this is beautifully true. I wished more people would tell themselves this every single day! thank you xx
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Aww, thank YOU!
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Very beauty ful bolg
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Why thank you! ♥
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Very poetic and spoken gorgeously . Great post. ❤
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Aww, thank you so much! ♥
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Wow. Beautiful. Very well said, Allison! ❤ You almost made me tear up. Very well written!
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Oh my goodness, thank you so much!
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My pleasure, Allison! ❤
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Reblogged this on Through the Eyes of Gracie and commented:
Wow. I love this. Girls, please read this! ❤
*hugs*
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Thank you so much, dear! ♥
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Anytime!!
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Great post Allison! Beautifully written! ❤
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Aww, thank you! 🙂
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YW!
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Wow! I love this ❤️
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Aww, I’m so glad! 🙂
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