tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post8081871989163189392..comments2023-11-07T02:13:01.888-05:00Comments on Veronica Mitchell: On Beauty, Part TwoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-82366994887495572952011-10-30T18:32:14.760-04:002011-10-30T18:32:14.760-04:00These two posts on beauty ARE beautiful. As a mot...These two posts on beauty ARE beautiful. As a mother learning to parent a daughter who is unbelievably gorgeous I am prayerfully trying to let her beauty point to Christ and not create an environment where she is enslaved to it. Some would deny beauty all together and tell me never to speak of it, but that would be to deny God! After all, whatever is true, good and beautiful is Godly!!Lauren @ Magnify the Lord with Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12266540380917036624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-68310494653349227982011-10-19T22:52:15.069-04:002011-10-19T22:52:15.069-04:00I keep coming back to read this post again and aga...I keep coming back to read this post again and again and let the truth of it sink in deeper. Thank you so much.Linda B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-37889973318150433262011-10-19T01:45:49.146-04:002011-10-19T01:45:49.146-04:00I love your idea that love unmasks real beauty.
I...I love your idea that love unmasks real beauty.<br /><br />I think you've just provided a lovely justification of the problem in fairy tales of all the good characters ending up beautiful, even if they started out ugly (Beauty and the Beast, The Ugly Duckling). Instead of seeing this as a dangerous teaching that goodness and success always leads to physical beauty, I'm going to now see those stories as revealing the truth that anyone we really know and love will come to be beautiful to us.<br /><br />(By the way, hi, I'm Zina, and I can't remember how I came to bookmark your site nor whether I've introduced myself before--but that doesn't stop me from commenting with impunity.) :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-16548292926208911212011-10-15T22:45:21.995-04:002011-10-15T22:45:21.995-04:00I was so happy to see you here. I have very few b...I was so happy to see you here. I have very few bloggers that I am committed to reading, but you were one of them once upon a time. <br /><br />I LOVE what you wrote on beauty... so very well said, thank you. I do hope you continue to write, because like your first post mentioned, I also long to hear (and see!) hope and truth and beauty intelligently revealed in this world. It's an encouragement in my desire to obey the command, "Do not fear what they fear, neither be afraid." <br /><br />Sometimes you just "click" with certain voices, and I recognize them when I hear them. :) Thanks so much!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-20421307149406832882011-10-02T01:59:53.670-04:002011-10-02T01:59:53.670-04:00I keep trying to figure out how to respond to this...I keep trying to figure out how to respond to this post as I nodded in assent reading on down. I keep wondering about the deeper implications of this statement,<br /><br />"The truth, on which I have only a tenuous hold, is that the people who love us see our beauty most clearly. I do not mean love fabricates beauty that isn't there. I mean love gives us new perceptions of realities we might, in other circumstances, be blind to. Love reveals, not masks."<br /><br />Loved this post, and the journey to believing your husband at last. :)Carrien Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00709368343967989328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-22745349924418236352011-09-28T18:41:58.198-04:002011-09-28T18:41:58.198-04:00Wow. That's some powerful truth! You've sp...Wow. That's some powerful truth! You've spoken what I could not articulate. Imperative too, in understanding God's love - perfect love drives out fear. <br /><br />Thanks so much for sharing! <br /><br />-Kim RempelFrom The Heart Onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436490842039694556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-1206398280574103242011-09-28T15:41:25.290-04:002011-09-28T15:41:25.290-04:00Loved this post and part one as well. I also think...Loved this post and part one as well. I also think it's awesome that we were married on the same day, same year. We were pronounced husband and wife around 2:20pm, MDT...you?<br /><br />I'm one to brush my husband's compliments off as motivated by sex or duty, never because he sees me as beautiful. This is a huge mistake. He gets rightfully offended when I answer with, "You're supposed to say that..." or "Whaddaya want?!" <br /><br />When I tell my children they are beautiful/lovely, it's never because I want them to pick up their backpacks or do their homework. It's not because I'm their mom and have to tell them how cute they are. I do it because I can't help myself at that moment. I should entertain the thought my husband might feel the same way about me.gretchen from lifenuthttp://www.lifenut.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-32399410649212179842011-09-26T23:49:49.504-04:002011-09-26T23:49:49.504-04:00This is really wonderful. Thanks for sharing the ...This is really wonderful. Thanks for sharing the personal.Allyshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10638969631863483061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-61881408973046611542011-09-26T21:26:10.353-04:002011-09-26T21:26:10.353-04:00I felt completely ordinary and invisible at 20. I ...I felt completely ordinary and invisible at 20. I look back at pictures of myself then and wonder why I thought that. Not, mind you, that I look now and see some incredible beauty. I do see, though, much more there than I used to see.<br /><br />If only I had a time machine to travel back to that 20 year old. I could try to set her straight. Not that she'd listen to me.<br /><br />Regarding accepting your beauty is someone else's eyes, I am very grateful for my husband's steady viewing of me as beautiful.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270726693980247861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-87212867230454082322011-09-26T21:24:38.706-04:002011-09-26T21:24:38.706-04:00Congratulations on 15 years!
This brought tears t...Congratulations on 15 years!<br /><br />This brought tears to my eyes - you are so right, and I have been so blind. Thank you thank you thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-69188959056952601692011-09-26T20:25:12.567-04:002011-09-26T20:25:12.567-04:00"a practical plan for getting sex from the on..."a practical plan for getting sex from the only person he's allowed"<br /><br />This made me laugh so hard!Beahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15957626443087438904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-92023637410821401552011-09-26T19:05:53.939-04:002011-09-26T19:05:53.939-04:00this hit home. my husband always asks why i simpl...this hit home. my husband always asks why i simply can't believe him when he says i'm pretty. maybe it is time for me to let go of those fears, too.Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04662448292809451387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23483482.post-19374727646721207032011-09-26T19:00:06.490-04:002011-09-26T19:00:06.490-04:00i think you're right...the trust and acceptanc...i think you're right...the trust and acceptance of another's appreciation - at face value, as genuine, as honest - is one of the hardest things.<br /><br />i guess i've never thought of it in terms of the marriage framework. obviously, i'd argue it exists and is important outside that framework. but it may still be one of the best arguments FOR the framework itself that i've heard. would that we all had such relationships.<br /><br />this would actually make a great post for my #thehomeproject series, Veronica. loved it.Bonhttp://cribchronicles.comnoreply@blogger.com