By Keyshana Coleman
The battle of realizing you are BEAUTIFUL!
Naturally... Beautiful? Nah!
For as long as I can remember I never felt beautiful although, I was told, I never believed. I began my natural hair journey around the time I had came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. After cutting off my hair to go natural I felt so liberated and loved. There were some frowns and some smiles but all in all it was like I was supposed to be this woman a lonnng time ago. I knew this was how God designed me to look and my hair, not in an obsessive way, was something that I should embrace! Also, becoming a believer opened my eyes to so much more. We are fed by society, family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends that in order to be beautiful we have to look a certain way and that our beauty is based on what we have. However, God paints a bigger picture in 1 Peter 3:4 that our beauty is the hidden person (the Holy spirit) of our heart and is very precious to God.
I know there are some people out there who are just like I was. I was looking to be beautiful in all the wrong areas and striving for approval from others especially, for their validation of beauty, but in Christ we are all beautiful to the Creator of the universe & to know that has transformed my whole world. I just want you to know whoever you are reading this, yes you! YOU. ARE. NATURALLY. BEAUTIFUL in every way that God has made you! Yes, I sometimes still struggle with believing how beautiful I really am, but day by day the Lord is working on my imperfect self for his glory and my good! And that alone is beautiful to me.
Never forget BE.YOU.tiful!
Psalm 139:13-14 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Naturally... Beautiful? Nah!
For as long as I can remember I never felt beautiful although, I was told, I never believed. I began my natural hair journey around the time I had came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. After cutting off my hair to go natural I felt so liberated and loved. There were some frowns and some smiles but all in all it was like I was supposed to be this woman a lonnng time ago. I knew this was how God designed me to look and my hair, not in an obsessive way, was something that I should embrace! Also, becoming a believer opened my eyes to so much more. We are fed by society, family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends that in order to be beautiful we have to look a certain way and that our beauty is based on what we have. However, God paints a bigger picture in 1 Peter 3:4 that our beauty is the hidden person (the Holy spirit) of our heart and is very precious to God.
I know there are some people out there who are just like I was. I was looking to be beautiful in all the wrong areas and striving for approval from others especially, for their validation of beauty, but in Christ we are all beautiful to the Creator of the universe & to know that has transformed my whole world. I just want you to know whoever you are reading this, yes you! YOU. ARE. NATURALLY. BEAUTIFUL in every way that God has made you! Yes, I sometimes still struggle with believing how beautiful I really am, but day by day the Lord is working on my imperfect self for his glory and my good! And that alone is beautiful to me.
Never forget BE.YOU.tiful!
Psalm 139:13-14 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
(Me Then)
(Me Now)
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