{First: I have heard several reviews from yesterday’s intense post.  One was “love it!” and some were something like, “oh dear!”  If you have a response to share, please do!  Drop me a note and I will be interested to hear what you have to say.

For clarification, the opinions I expressed were toward large social issues,(not any one individual) some that are so worrisome, and so destructive, that I think they deserve a forthright and firm response in the other direction. But, I realize that for as many people as there are on the planet, there are differing situations, all that require adaptations and compromise with family roles and structure.  I, in no way, intend to offend you who are working so hard to do the absolute best you can. Which is all any of us are doing!

That said, I wonder if we, as a society, have become so sensitive to being politically correct, or at least appropriately alarmed when someone is not, that we become uncomfortable even when the opinion being expressed may align with our own?

Whatever the reason, I have felt uneasy today and I wish you to know that I will do my best to be straightforward and speak what I see as the truth, in love; and if I missed my mark with you yesterday… I hope you can forgive me and let me know your ideas, and I will continue to practice the art of merging kind, gentle, respectful and firm! Thanks!}

On to today…

It has seemed that as I have gotten older, I have come to realize that there are so many kinds of beautiful!  My family was very into “perfect.”  Perfect features and the perfect weight and the notion that if you weren’t a certain kind of beautiful, it would be hard to succeed in life.

It was amazing to me when I heard a friend of mine say how much she loves her freckles, and that doesn’t ever want to wear too much make-up because she didn’t want to cover them up.  That floored me (even though I thought of her as beautiful) because I always saw freckles on myself as blemishes that needed to be concealed!

But just today, I heard myself say to that face in the mirror that those freckles are pretty!  (Isn’t it amazing how much we can evolve and change in our simple life time?)

What is beautiful to you?  And do you feel that you are designing your kind of beautiful, or do you feel that you must fit into the one that you accepted growing up?

Beautiful, for the most part, is the glowing person that comes out of your eyes when you are feeling loved and valued and at peace with your own behavior, and I might say, when you are having loving thoughts toward others.

Love does make us beautiful, doesn’t it?

I hope you’re bathing in self-acceptance and self-care!  So that, that centered, lovely, intelligent soul that is you will be shining out to your family and everyone you meet!

Be well.

Love,

Jacque

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”
― Audrey Hepburn

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