There's a Price to Pay to be Beautiful

I remember when I was little(though I use the word loosely as I always a bit on the chubby side), my mom used to brush my hair for me. I absolutely hated it. Apperently I was born pre-tear free shampoo and conditioner. It hurt like a bugger. I would cry everytime. My hair would be so knotted that it could not just be brushed through without the brush getting stuck and mymom having to yank, taking chunks of hair out of my head with the brush.It was terribly painful. Thank goodness for conditioner, the day I discovered conditioner my life was forever changed. Anyway, the point is, I remember when I was crying, my mom would say to me, "theres a price to pay to be beautiful". And how right she was. Girls everywhere are paying hugely, trying to be beautiful. To have the perfect body. We are paying financially. Plastic surgery, laser surgery, make-up, clothes....and the list goes on. We are paying with time. Hours spent in front of the mirror, wasted time, applying make-up, drying hair, straighting hair, curling hair, plucking hair, waxing hair, dying hair. and a lot of us are paying with out health. Thousands if girls are literaly dying to be thin. Without concern for the risks to health, counting calories, limiting fat, over excersizing, and puking up their food. All to be beautiful. All to achieve that perfect body. I am not a stranger to the obsession with body weight.I am not a stranger to the price of beauty. I realized one day that I have spent so much time trying to fix the outside of me, that I was neglecting the inside, the place that matters. Luckily for me, I met a guy who seems to be blind, who thinks Im beautiful, God forbid he ever get glasses(lol). Heres the thing about beauty. The truth is there is a price to pay to be beautiful, but the price has already been paid. True beauty that counts comes not from the perfect body, but the soul that has been made perfect through the sacrifice that Jesus made on that cross. See, beauty comes from being made pure inside, and the price has already been paid.