A Beautiful Woman

Beauty, specifically the physical beauty of a woman, is a difficult topic. On the one hand, there are those who are too busy or careless to attain beauty, do not appreciate beauty, or even consider all beauty vain and sinful. On the other hand, are the much more common problems, which are twain:

1. The misunderstanding of what true beauty is

2. The misunderstanding of the value and place of beauty

Between the right hand and the left, is a beautiful woman.

A woman who is truly beautiful.

A woman who appreciates beauty as God designed it to be.

A woman who does not idolize beauty.

A woman who does not gauge her value by her beauty

A woman who does not expect or allow others to determine her value by her beauty.

A woman who does not gauge the value of other women by their beauty.

A woman who will not sacrifice principle for beauty.

A woman who will not sacrifice principle because of beauty.

A woman who will not use her beauty for selfish or evil purposes.

A woman one who does not place the value of physical beauty above the beauty of her heart, mind, character, and life.

C's to Contend with

Carelessness

Combativeness

Covetousness

Virtues for your hope chest

Some more Ds

Dignity

Diligence

Discretion

Virtues for your hope chest

More Cs

Contentment

Cleanliness

Courage

Chastity

Vices, anyone?

Do you have any of these vices? Think of them in their mild forms too (that's when it really gets you!).

Anger (in a negative sense)

Aggressiveness

Absent-mindedness

Arrogance

More Virtues

Three ABCs of getting along with other people?

Appreciation (being appreciative)

Benevolence

Compassion

Are you a virtuous woman?

If you have not been here recently, please read the previous post as this is a continuation of it.

Or, perhaps . . .

Deference

Discernment

Dependability

Are you a virtuous woman?

If you haven't been here recently, please read the previous post first.

What about . . .

Cheerfulness

Courtesy

Confidence

Are you a virtuous woman?

How much of these virtues do you have in your hope chest?

Assertiveness

Attentiveness

Awareness

Ah! Sweet Victory

I only wish I had more of it. But that's beside the point. This is about what I do have!

Did I mention that I finally decided what color to paint my bathroom? You know it took me longer to decide that than it took me to decide whether or not to go to college? Anyway, it's done. Whew! And the paint is on so I can't change my mind. Now for my bedroom . . . .

I am also working on putting the Christmas stuff away. Now, before you laugh, I must tell you that there are reasons that it's February and I still haven't done that. 1) I have a bad memory, I rarely spend much time in the rooms wherein such things were located, and I am often unobservant. Thus, I didn't think of it very often. 2) I wanted to do it right. You know, organized so we can actually find things when we need them. It has never been that way before. There were numerous boxes of miscellaneous stuff and it was hard to find things. I designated this year the year to get everything organized because now that we're in the house I have room and this was the first year we had all of the Christmas stuff together (although I honestly think there is another box hiding somewhere). 3) I need more storage containers so I can get my own stuff organized and I can't afford to buy many, so booting family stuff out of my personally owned plastic storage containers that have been housing Christmas stuff sounded like a great idea.

The good news is, the stuff is getting booted--at least as much as will fit in the large blue plastic tubs Mom and I retrieved out of storage. She emptied them of the old food they contained (think rancid flour and old pasta, not old refrigerator contents). I scrubbed them up. Progress is being made. I may still have to use some of my boxes. At least it will all be organized and away. Some of the stuff belongs to me personally anyway.

There is hope. :-)