Today started out great...I got to have my one day of the week where we DON'T have morning practice, so I slept in till nine!! It was wonderful! :) Four extra hours does wonders to the mind and body. :) Then I went to practice and did weights and swam with Kyle. He's my study-buddy for international business on tuesdays and thursdays. Our teacher likes to give us random pop quizes so after practice, we study and review for that and I always order my one delight for the day, a "drumstick" ice cream cone....this makes my day after practice. Thankfully though, we didn't have a quiz so instead we talked about if Whitworth were to go abroad, how would we plan on expanding our school and giving our teacher more money haha! Walter Hutchins is my teacher and he's really funny, although his tests are completely rediculous and no one gets A's on them, he still seems to be a favorite among the business students at Whitworth.
So I was looking at my own profile and I realized that I never explained the meaning of my title, "Genuine Beauty." So this is the title that I would "like" to call my own beauty salon if I ever get there. :) I think it explains perfectly what I love to see in others. Genuine beauty from the heart is always SO transparent and especially in a woman, can only result from being loved so fully and completely that the beauty just overwhelms the people who encounter her. She will radiate love when she is genuinely loved. Personally, I feel that the best representation of Genuine Beauty in a person is given from having a personal relationship with and recieving love from Christ. Others may challenge me about this who don't know Christ and say that there is still people who have beautiful hearts who are not Christ-followers....this is true, there are definitely many people out there who have incredible hearts of beauty.....but I have to stick to the fact that God's love is the only perfect love around. Jesus died for us even though we did NOTHING to deserve it.......In our world, there is practically no such thing as an altruisitc deed. Our sinful nature does not allow for us to want anything that doesn't in some way benefit ourselves. I think that when you are loved by someone who would die for you no matter WHAT you did, or where you were in life, I think that that is genuine love....if you were to accept that love and be the recipient of genuine love, it produces a special kind of genuine beauty in a person... A beauty that is thankful to her creator, and radiates itself by praising Him in her smile, action, and speech. I love and so enjoy making others feel good about themselves and I feel like this opportunity to do hair and be able to do that for people has just been handed to me, so I'm taking it! I'm really excited to meet new people and hear their life stories...basically what this all comes down to is that I love God and I love people. Normally though, I would say that without Christ in my life, I would not grant such love to some people in my life, nor would I try to make an effort to love those who I have a hard time being around or contradict everything that I might stand for...but the more I learn about God, love God, and learn how ugly my heart is without his presence in it, the more I love the people that He loves so much. Even though I still am in awe and wonderment WHY he would ever love messed up people like us, He always changes my heart towards people when I read about Jesus' ministry. I serve such a wonderful God....so humble, yet deserves all Glory....WOW. Cool stuff.
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Britt!
Awesome post! and I mean that, I really do. The amazing thing about the love of Christ, his perfect love that I've learning lately is that it works in us and thru us in ways that we can't fully appreciate - often for the benefit of others as much as for ourselves. Human love is this odd thing that is separate from and dependent on the feelings of myself and those around me. Christ's love - his perfect love can love with out the hope or promise of a return, truly focused on people for who they are, and who they could be in Him. He loves the angry, the bitter, the lost, the cold, the weary, and most difficult for us the indifferent. Only the perfect love of Christ can do this, we can try - we can try and try and try on our own - but in the end we either give up or turn to Christ and say "Show me how to live - how to love" You talked about non-believers who have beautiful genuine hearts for people - if I had to guess, they either have been through something, or they were taught how too - love does not exist in a vacuum - Every good and perfect gift is from above. God is constantly working in and thru the hearts of everyone - believers and non-believers to draw them closer to him.
Love the blog - you've just found a new reader! Keep it up,
- Neil
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