It is important that we keep a record of our lives.  It doesn’t have to be written in an expensive volume.  Just get a notebook even, and begin writing down the events in your life along with things happening in the world which you feel impressed to record.  We may not be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel presently, as to all thenreasons the Lord wants us to do this, but there will come a time when we will be fully enlightened and we will be happy that we did this.

I am not the thinnest person around.  I do not have an aqualine nose.  I am not tall and I don’t have what are considered a model’s facial features.  I do not have designer clothes and expensive jewelry to impress others.  My body is not “perfect.”  So what am I?  I’ll tell you.  I am a daughter of God.  I am a worthwhile person.  I have talents which I am happy to use on behalf of others.  I have a great sense of spiritual self esteem.  I know that I am loved by God no matter what adverse things anyone else may think about me.  My happiness is not dependent upon the world’s standards’ of beauty and success.  I am a good person without those things.

In our society today, aging, and the showing of it is almost a crime.  It is a sad reflection of what our values are centered upon, when the top priority in a woman’s life becomes the obsession to hide the natural God-given effects of age on the face.  I decry the all too frequent use of surgery as an artificial means to happiness.  Would everyone want plastic surgery if they knew all of the steps involved in such a procedure?  Is this not enough to make one stop and think about how far you want to go to maintain outward beauty?  So many women resort to Botox injections in their faces to banish lines and wrinkles.  And the effects are temporary.  Repeated injections are necessary.  This is NOT a beneficial medicine that is injected.  It is actually a toxin, a poison.  Does no one believe anymore that vanity is a sin?  Is the concept of sin too foreign to our vocabularies?  What do you think the Lord would say about how we are treating, or mistreating the bodies He gave us?  What are we saying to Him?  I’m not happy with the way you set up the plan for us to age so I will surgically and/or chemically interfere with that wise plan?