Beauty Everywhere

My parents recently got back from Hawaii, and I have always been in love with the flowers. So it's my picture today. I've been contemplating the word beauty lately. I've come to realize that beauty is a personal concept. Being a girl, and dealing with anxiety issues, I've come to realize that life is beautiful. I was thinking of an experience that I've had not to long ago, where I was on the tracks coming from Salt Lake, and when a drunk was swearing up a storm and I was praying with all my might for him to stop. Something Beautiful happened, the man who was sitting across from him with tattoo's and many piercings leaned over and told him that ladies were resent and it wasn't nice to talk like that to them. WOW!! Thinking of that experience and dealing with a lot of girl friends who are just as self conscious as I am, has opened my eyes to the meaning of beauty. I see beauty a whole new way. I see it in someone who is trying to be better, in someone putting aside their wants and helping someone else. I see it in the glow of peoples eyes. I've come to realize that we all are beautiful. How we act, how we see the world, and how we think is all different. Yet we were all created by the same God. I don't think that he made me thinking that I wasn't going to shine like everyone else. We are all meant to shine! Some shine differently but it doesn't mean that they are any less beautiful than another. I think personal beauty outshines physical beauty. How we live our lives and the attitudes we have define us. Though I don't promise to never have self conscious issues again, I will certainly never think of anyone else as ugly. Sometimes the most precious of jewel is hidden beneath the plainest of rock.