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How would you define it?

by Karmen |

“beautiful” is today’s Five Minute Friday prompt

How would you define it?

what comes to your mind?

I’m joining Lisa Jo Baker again today for five minutes of edit free, stress free fun!

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“Beautiful”

funny how definitions change as I age

teens & twenties I would  have  defined “beautiful”  as the world does

Barbie-like, rosy cheeks, 36-24-36

but today when I read the prompt “beautiful”

I instantly thought of my mother

of course I think she’s beautiful, she’s my mother. she’s Precious

but more than the fact that she is indeed an attractive woman

is her character

it’s what makes her a jewel.

a rare jewel

she’s a living model of the Proverbs 31 woman

growing up my two sisters & I would hear daily

“Girls, pretty is, is pretty does”

her message

character is eternal

physical beauty is but a vapor

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So today if you were to ask me to define “beautiful”

I would tell you her name is Jan

and

I want to be just like her when I grow up

 

 

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Filed Under: #iheart, Everything Else, faith, Inspire

Comments

  1. Karrie says

    July 5, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    the beauty of a mother…..the older i get the more intelligent and beautiful my mother becomes……..if only i had thought so earlier

    • Karmen says

      July 6, 2013 at 1:56 am

      I couldn’t agree more..thankful my mother and I are closer now than ever before…thanks for stopping by

  2. Donna says

    July 5, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    A lovely post.

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