Maintaining our inner beauty just as we try to keep up the outer beauty!

I am slowly learning to embrace the aging process. It’s hard for a woman when we see all the seemingly perfect ladies on social media to compare ourself to. 

Middle age brings a slower metabolism, gray (or in my case white hair), wrinkles, thinner hair including eyebrows & eyelashes. No wonder the beauty and health & fitness advertisements that are all over tik tok and other social media platforms are thriving!They know as women we have a fight on our hands. There are so many ads for makeup & skincare creams that claim to help mature skin & new remedies to get those pounds of stubborn weight off that doesn’t seem to want to come off no matter what you do! 

A woman has so much to maintain in order to stay on top of these things I mentioned and some I didn’t, let alone measure up to seemingly perfect looking women we see on social media.

We seem to be in a time where perfection is top priority whether it’s using filters on our phones and apps or any products or procedures in the beauty industry to transform us into a more youthful and perfect version of ourselves!!

It’s so hard, we all want to look our best! I see and hear it a lot in the business I am in. I have said it myself but so often hear women say, “I want to lose a few pounds before I wear this or that.” And “I don’t like that picture I look awful in that one.” 

As I get older and come up against so many of these challenges I am beginning to realize beauty on the outside begins to try and fade away and all the struggles and trials in our life helps it fade away even faster. And just as we try to hold on to that outward beauty we must not let the challenges, stuggles & trials in our life change our inner beauty.

I have heard so many references to what some call people who are looking on the outside what they have been through in life. I don’t know about you but I don’t want to look like what I have been through, but that means making sure I take care of myself spiritually. Maintaining the inner beauty and not letting anything in this world taint that! 

I love the story of the three Hebrew boys in the Bible who were thrown into the firey furnance but had no evidence of even being in a fire because they had Jesus with them!

I have said all this to say I want to become a woman who worries about the inward beauty just as much as my outward appearance. I want what’s inside my heart to draw others to Christ and to stand out more than an outward appearance. I feel that is so much more important as I see so much heartache and suffering in this world! I pray our outward appearances will begin to radiate our inward beauty more and more and the enemy will lose his foothold on making us feel we have to measure up to someone else!

I was told by someone that I needed to start modeling my clothes from my store more and I am ashamed to say I wasn’t happy with my outward appearance to do so. I pray as women we become more concerned about the inward beauty as much as we do the outward and that will shine through us no matter the age or weight we are and we will get our confidence through Him! I Hope this helped someone else. God is teaching me and it is hard to be so vulnerable on a social media platform especially as a business owner but I feel our life lessons are not only for ourselves they are to share with others to maybe let them know they are not alone in their circumstances💕