How would you define it?

“beautiful” is today’s Five Minute Friday prompt

what comes to your mind?

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

“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.

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

******

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