inner beauty

I decided to put on fake nails yesterday.  I have gotten back into my bad habit of biting them.  yuck!  So I got out my fake nail kit and the super glue and glued them on, cut them, painted them.  You would think that super glue would do the trick.  Super glue is supposed to be one of the strongest glues in the world.  BUT….  I keep finding one of my fingers nail less.  If my nails weren’t painted pink with that black crackle polish over it (or as avon calls it “mosaic”), it might not be as noticeable when they fell off.  They aren’t the great kind that you use acrylic with and just glue the tip on – it is the whole nail. 

What in your life is noticeable?  For me, due to this blog and the role that I had been playing in my church with volunteering a lot, my walk with God was very visible.  If I fall off the path, people start asking questions and making sure I am alright.  This is something that is amazing and wonderful to me.  A lot of times in the mornings I think if I even want to sit and write.  The past few weeks it has been very hard for me due to excessive back pain and having to stay in town while my kids are at school.  I like that my walk with God is visible and people feel comfortable enough to make sure that I am following Him. 

Like fake nails when we just cover up our “real” issues and problems with something pretty and fake, when it comes off, people are going to see the real me.  Nothing against fake nails, because for people with bad nails, it is all we can do sometimes.  But unlike fake nails, our insides need to be even more beautiful than the outer shell that we put on sometimes.  We need to be more beautiful on the inside than on the outside.  For some of us, our beauty is not what the world sees as drop-dead-gorgeous, for others, your outer beauty may be.  We don’t need to be concerned with our outer beauty though, we need to be concerned with our inner beauty. 

We need to ensure that even if one of our nails falls off, we have a back up plan and can fix it very quickly.  We need to surround ourselves with Godly people and Godly wisdom and love and know that when we fall, someone is there to pick us up again. 

1 Peter 3: 3-4 “Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.”

On a personal note, thank you all for all your kind words and prayers this past few weeks where I have been slacking.  My back is starting to feel a little better and I will be starting PT next week.  You are all amazing people!