Beauty - Part 2

That was certainly the longest interlude between two related posts I've ever had.

{{I've been busy}}

So here is the article that I read right on the heels of my previously reported magazine encounter:

Letting Herself Go

Be sure and ready Rachel Held Evan's post that triggered Tim Challis' post: Thou Shalt Not Let Thyself Go

(have a headache yet?)

And here are two other posts by Rachel Held Evans:

Better Conversations about Bible Womanhood 

Better Conversations about Biblical Womanhood Part 2

So.

Yep.

I tried and tried to write my feelings out about all of this, and I just can't. Maybe because I've just had too much going on and need a lot of quiet time (haha) to sort this out in a way that I can write out my thoughts. Or maybe I don't even want to figure it all out. This may be one of those "suck it up" issues where too much thought is not a good thing. 

I do need to note the following comment. Maybe it's not all about physical beauty. Maybe it's about a beautiful relationship. I don't know. 

I really don't have time to think about it.

"You are correct that a husband's love for his wife should not be predicated on any standard of outward beauty.  A wife's desire to please her husband comes in the context of his need to love her unconditionally and serve her sacrificially, and it enables him to do that more and better.

One of the beauties of how God has designed men and women in a complementary fashion is that the better job a husband does of being a Biblical husband, the more he inspires his wife to be a Biblical wife, and vice versa - it's synergistic."