Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”— before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.
“The tragedy of sin is not that you did something wrong, but that you left God”
The ultimate goal of Christianity is to know, follow, and worship God. The relationship between God and ourself is freeing, and intimate, and encouraging, and convicting, and purifying. It’s wonderful, and it’s terrible that many Christians, myself included, can turn our relationship with God into something that brings us shame and guilt. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, but instead of focusing on the love of God, many Christians use feelings of condemnation a motivator to live a holy life.
I pray we have the same attitude as Paul; “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.”
“When He talks of their losing their selves He only means abandoning the clamor of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back their personality, and boasts that when they are wholly His they are more themselves than ever.” -Screwtape #13 I believe things about myself that aren’t true.
God is teaching me who I really am. He is teaching me what really satisfies and how to love myself.
I made this a long while ago and it’s run off without me. I’m happy it’s starting discussions and gotten popular, even without credit, but sometimes I stumble across it and some of the ideas it brings out makes me a bit sad.
I know it’s a question and I meant for it to be answered, but some of the answers are so full of hate. Often its critics who hate overweight people, or it’s overweight critics who hate skinny people. All of them with evolutionary evidence for their beliefs.
So I thought I would throw in my answer to the question:
I think we would find beauty in everyone. I don’t think this is a evolutionary question or even a question about society; I would say its a spiritual question.When we read Genesis we see God creating the world from the ground up; from plain to beautiful. Creation builds and gets more and more lovely through out the process. Light, water, and ground give way to vegetation and then to the entire animal kingdom. Man was the most amazing of all creatures, but is nothing compared to the beauty of woman; the “Crown of Creation” if you will.
I believe all women descend from that archetype and thus contain the same transcendent beauty that God gave to Eve. Society and science may distort who we find to be attractive, but if we look past that we can find true beauty in everyone.
