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======How do I look? ...======
Thursday, July 2, 2009.
How do I look? Perhaps I am a pretty young man, or a
a gorgeous young lady? Perhaps I am well-trained, with
athletic arms and legs. Some people have a beautiful
statue, others move in a very smooth and impressive
way. Others have appealing hips, spectacular hair or
beautiful eyes. Usually it is important, how we look,
how we move and how we are perceived. It influences
our environment, and it influences our own perception,
our thinking and our behaviour.
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Perhaps I am not that pretty. It might be that there
are many parts of my appearance which I perceive as
"not that beautiful". I might have too much weight. I
might not be that elegant. My nose might be a little
too large, the ears not perfect, the eyes too small,
perhaps there is a some tooth protruding in a way which
I never liked in my life. It is possible that I remember
times when other children teased me because of my
appearance. It is possible that people did not want
to deal with me because I am too fat, too ugly, not
trendy enough. Maybe I look to old-fashioned, too
out-of-date. Things like this are not a matter of age -
I can look out-of-date with 10 years or with 80 years.
I can be trendy with 15 or with 75.
Beauty is relative! There are people who are beautiful,
but their beauty has a sense of
affectedness. Others are beautiful, but became proud
and so self-absorbed that their beauty grew cold and
distant. Then beauty changes its character - it is
beautiful only in a very limited sense.
Do you know the effect that suddenly people appear
beautiful, even if they do not have any features we
would normally perceive as beauty? People can be old,
with many crinkles, with a stiff leg and limited
mobility, and yet be very beautiful. There is something
going on in our existence which makes people beautiful,
even if their bodies would not win any beauty contest.
It has to do with our mind, with our attitudes, with
our smile and our behaviour. It has to do with our
relation to other people.
Everyone of us has an extremely valuable body. You do
not need to be a physician, to know how complex and
beautiful our bodies are. We have difficulties to destroy
this beauty, even if we behave wrongly over 50 years
and destroy ourselves by alcohol, too much food, drugs
and missing excercise. We have been given this body by
God, by the creator and Lord. And he knows all our
appearant and hidden beauties. He loves us deeply, even
if we have difficulties to love ourselves or others.
If we think someone is ugly, it is not him! It is our
own dark eyes who are not able to see the overwhelming
beauty which has been given to everyone of us by
the creator. If we would open our eyes for the full
range of human appearance and capacity, we would be
stunned how beautiful the world is and in particular
how beautiful these humans are.
[R.W.E.P., jesusnetwork.eu]
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