For so long, I felt confined to one word that defined me. Beautiful.
For so long, I hid behind a shallow confidence that was rooted in the way that others saw me,
because my identity was found in my outward appearance.
no one specific is to blame, maybe it was my own fault, but growing up, i put a lot of weight on what people thought of me, and how people saw me.
finding a comfort in the fact that the first thing that people saw when they looked at me was my outward appearance.
growing up in the middle eastern culture, i was always told that my long black hair was so pretty and that most of my beauty came from having hair down to my elbows.
This past month and a half with no makeup and short hair, has taught me so much about who God is, and who He has created me to be. the new confidence in who i am underneath it all. Hes peeling back the layers of who i used to be and revealing to me everyday how beautiful i am because HE is within me.
My heart has been through so much lately and so… in honor of my new confidence in knowing that the ONLY beautiful thing in me is the LORD…
I AM BALD!
Its taken me a long time to get to where i am. and its taken a lot of tears for God to get me to see the way i do now.
My prayer and hope is that every woman can recognize the beauty that they posess on the inside. Regardless of how any man or any other person, for that matter, may see them.That their confidence would be BOLD.
