When you fall down, you're supposed to get up, right?
How can you get up when you don't have the strength to go on?
How do you stay happy when the happiness seems to have been leeched out of your life?
I'll tell you how.
Christ took upon all our pains so we wouldn't have to suffer.
"Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
"For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
If we desire our pain to go away, we need to go to him and let him carry our burden. If we don't ask we will not receive.
I have had to learn this. Sometimes we don't want to do anything about our pain. We just want to sit and feel sorry for ourselves, and wait for someone to take it away.
I would rather do a little and not have to suffer, than do nothing and have to suffer immense pain.
He doesn't want us to suffer, he wants us to live full and happy lives.
Something computer generated is not necessarily beautiful.
Real beauty comes from inside. It is found not by having the most beautifully sculpted nose or the thinnest waist. It is found by helping others, by
People who should be considered beautiful usually do not have the worldly meanings of beauty.
However, they are usually told that in order to be considered beautiful, they have to look like this:
Because this is the way the world makes us view beauty, Dove surveyed women and girls worldwide and came across these alarming statistics:
Only 4% of women worldwide consider themselves beautiful
Only 11% of girls are comfortable using the word beautiful to describe themselves
72% of girls feel tremendous pressure to be beautiful
80% of women agree that every woman has something about her that is beautiful but do not see their own beauty
54% of women agree that they are their own worst beauty critic
How did the world get like this?
We are supposed to be beautiful by being righteous, by being kind, compassionate, caring, loving, and charitable. When a person is truly beautiful they have the light of Christ in their eyes.
She doesn't have the light of Christ in the before or after. It's sad. We think that people who have cold expressions and unnaturally thin waists are beautiful.
This is beauty. You can see she has the light of Christ in her eyes. She is beautiful.
Little children have this too. They have the purest spirits that you can see they have the light of Christ in them. Little children are beautiful.
She is beautiful.
"You don't have to prove your beauty
In the eyes of men.
You are divine within,
You were sent here to become
Like Him."
I want to be like Him, not like a cold-hearted computer generated model.
