What God Says... {Beauty on a Budget}
Today, you are getting two posts. Yep.
In an effort to be a woman who finishes what she starts, I have the fifth post for the Beauty on a Budget series... a week and a half later than planned.
I do have a reason for that. Today's second post might explain why I suddenly got quiet.
Also, truth be told, I just have a hard time talking about beauty. And maybe if I am honest, I am still struggling to find the value in myself that goes deeper than my skin... this skin that now wears some age and a few more pounds than I would like.
So since words are failing me (at least on this topic), let me just leave us with some simple reminders about what God says about our value and our beauty.
And lastly, one great reminder for those hard days when your value escapes you because you catch yourself yelling, struggling, worrying, nagging, or just straight wanting to be on the other side of whatever trial you are facing...
All those hard things, all those struggles, God is weaving them into a story, a your-story becoming His-story... a redeemed story that will be BEAUTIFUL in His time.
I just want to give a special thanks to Mandy and Kassie, from Glittered with Grace, for being apart, for sharing your knowledge and your heart with us. You inspire. I wish you both community, God's direction, and a place to SHINE like glitter in the gifts and talents He's given you as the two of you navigate this occasionally crazy social media business together.
If you missed the Beauty on a Budget series you can catch up here:
1. On Beauty (an intro to the series from AmandaConquers)
2. Can You Get a Whole Face of Make-Up for $40?
3. Fall for Your Face
4. Black Tee and Jeans Styled Four Ways
5. What God Says...
Okay, so if you want, you can jump over and read another post about some really hard things I have been dealing with (I've got to warn you. It's not exactly pretty and I am still in the midst of it; I just felt like God was asking me to open up about it).
By Grace,
Amanda Conquers
In an effort to be a woman who finishes what she starts, I have the fifth post for the Beauty on a Budget series... a week and a half later than planned.
I do have a reason for that. Today's second post might explain why I suddenly got quiet.
Also, truth be told, I just have a hard time talking about beauty. And maybe if I am honest, I am still struggling to find the value in myself that goes deeper than my skin... this skin that now wears some age and a few more pounds than I would like.
So since words are failing me (at least on this topic), let me just leave us with some simple reminders about what God says about our value and our beauty.
Proverbs 31:30
Charm is deceptive and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised.
Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.
Psalm 139:13-18
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body;You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you,The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them! I couldn’t even begin to count them—any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you! (The Message--I like some of the phrasings from this frequently mentioned passage in the Message paraphrase.)
Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.
And lastly, one great reminder for those hard days when your value escapes you because you catch yourself yelling, struggling, worrying, nagging, or just straight wanting to be on the other side of whatever trial you are facing...
All those hard things, all those struggles, God is weaving them into a story, a your-story becoming His-story... a redeemed story that will be BEAUTIFUL in His time.
I just want to give a special thanks to Mandy and Kassie, from Glittered with Grace, for being apart, for sharing your knowledge and your heart with us. You inspire. I wish you both community, God's direction, and a place to SHINE like glitter in the gifts and talents He's given you as the two of you navigate this occasionally crazy social media business together.
If you missed the Beauty on a Budget series you can catch up here:
1. On Beauty (an intro to the series from AmandaConquers)
2. Can You Get a Whole Face of Make-Up for $40?
3. Fall for Your Face
4. Black Tee and Jeans Styled Four Ways
5. What God Says...
Okay, so if you want, you can jump over and read another post about some really hard things I have been dealing with (I've got to warn you. It's not exactly pretty and I am still in the midst of it; I just felt like God was asking me to open up about it).
By Grace,
Amanda Conquers