Distorted Image

Plastic surgeons make thousands of dollars on patients who believe they are less than perfect. The obese run to doctors to have surgery for weight lose. We are a desperate people, desperately looking for a chance to be someone else. The change we need can’t be found in a bottle or a tube. The surgeons’ scalpel can never cut deep enough to find the peace of mind we’re looking for.

We look into eyes of blue only to find out that they are really brown. The beautiful blond you dated last week, suddenly becomes a redhead. Your grandmother looks ten years younger after her face-lift and you wonder if everyone has gone mad. The salons are packed to capacity and yet no one is satisfied. Why? It’s because we feel unacceptable. We want to be someone we are not.

We are always looking for some new lotion, make-up, or anti wrinkle cream that will enhance our natural beauty and perhaps even slow the aging process. We spend millions of dollars on diet books, calorie counters and fat reducing herbs and vitamins, all to transform ourselves into the image the world has portrayed as beautiful. Some of us have fallen into the trap set by the secular media. Beauty parlors are busy with dying, curling, straightening, and frosting hair, not to mention the thousands of dollars spent to have the fingernails of a movie star! Plastic surgeons make a killing on face- lifts, tummy tucks, and Liposuction. A parade of lives marching through the long barrage of gimmicks and tricks created to profit by our low self-esteem. A problem created by years of seeing women portrayed as sex objects on TV and in secular magazines.
         We have been invaded by “the spiritual body snatchers” who have stolen the  person’s identity. Remember that old movie where aliens would leave pods laying around, and who ever was closest to the pod was stolen and a lifeless drone was left in their place. True beauty is not derived from the kind of clothes we wear or where we purchased them.  Women judge them selves by the world’s view of the perfect woman, and most often come up wanting. Our mindset depends on which mirror we’re looking into. Where are you looking for your reflection?

My mirror had become my worst enemy. I despised the image my mirror reflected. Making an effort to improve our appearance is fine and commendable but when it becomes our greatest focus, and criteria on which we base acceptability for membership in any group or church affiliation it’s gone too far. We can become what God wants us to be one step at a time from
the inside out. The makeup is good. Some of us need it more than others. The perfume is great, especially in a crowed room.  Those around us will b e glad we use many of the wonderful products made for women.  Much of what they provide does what it says it will do! No amount of makeup can do miracles and thats when we have accept ourselves as we are!

Allow yourself the luxury of perfumes, lotions and hair spray, but do it for yourself, to improve the way you feel about yourself.