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The Key To Beauty

I enjoy this really great magazine called Real Simple. I suppose the reason why I enjoy the magazine so much is because it is my feeble attempt to make myself believe that I can live a simple life: a life of no stress, a life full of meditating, exercising and a really simple life of eating organic grass nuts. Anyway, I digress.:) My latest issue of Real Simple had an article titled, “What Makes You Feel Beautiful.” The writer of the article interviewed people of all different ages about what made them feel beautiful . The answers to the questions were so unique and varied. One interviewee said, “I feel beautiful when my husband says I make him happy,” and another lady wrote in, “I feel beautiful sitting down with a glass of wine with my husband after we have put our kids to bed and are reflecting about our day.” Someone else who was interviewed wrote, “my work makes me feel beautiful.” This simple question of “what makes me feel beautiful” got me thinking. What makes me feel beautiful? I mean, I am the first one to feel cute in a pair of fun new shoes or a stylish new shirt. But when in life do I truly feel beautiful? You know, that kind of beauty that starts in your soul and makes you feel like the world is yours to have. The kind of beauty that makes me feel that all is right in the world, the kind of beauty that reassures me that my children will grow up to be healthy, happy, giving people, that my marriage will continue to survive the trials that life brings, that trying relationships will be made right. So, here is my list of what makes me feel beautiful:

I feel beautiful when I am leaving church on Sunday mornings with my family in tow, and we are on our way to a restaurant for brunch.
I feel beautiful when my husband is laughing at one of my jokes.
I feel beautiful when I have finished a long walk with my two crazy “Marley and Me” like dogs.
I feel beautiful when I have been gracious, even if it almost killed me.

So here is your mission, if you chose to accept it:). What makes you feel beautiful? I will leave a quote with you from the famous and the beautiful Miss Julia Roberts, who has had all the opportunities in the world to feel beautiful and this is what she has to say about feeling beautiful. “The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.”

Here’s to being beautiful!