We are pursued by beauty. It’s in the world around us from the snow capped Andes in Peru to the wondrous sea life that calls the Great Barrier Reef its home. A beautiful world hand crafted by a beautiful God. There is also beauty within us, a beauty breathed life from dust, by the same beautiful God.
But often times we miss it. We focus too much on what is wrong to appreciate what is beautiful – a fallen/broken world and the magnificent grace of her Creator.
More often than not we miss the beauty within ourselves. We see our flaws [both physical and not] and believe the lies that these labels tell us.
My dear friend, Elora, has published her first eBook – When Beauty Pursues You.
In it she shares short essays on her struggle with an eating disorder, and the journey over the last year to where she’s come to today. She shares her struggle to accept that there is beauty within her and allow it to overwhelm her.
In Elora’s own words:
this is for the girls who feel damaged and used and forgotten. it’s a manifesto, in the middle of my brokenness, for those who feel like they’ll never measure up against standards set for them.
Whether we’ve struggled with being over weight or too skinny, too blonde or too redheaded, abused, broken or simply just living this exhausting human life, there is beauty in you.
She {Beauty} wants you to know this and to live this.
I’m giving away two copies today of When Beauty Pursues You. I believe this message that Elora has penned needs to be repeated over and over again. To ourselves, our sisters, our wives, our best friends, and our daughters.
To enter, leave a comment below. Please feel free to share a time when beauty has pursued you. I will announce the winners on Friday, January 27th.
Thank you so much, the both of you. I think every girl needs to know she is beautiful and she is worthy. Congrats Elora on this amazing journey!
Exactly Kristi. It doesn’t matter what our story is. We may have been told over and over growing up that we’re the most beautiful girl in the world and we’re still going to fight the insecurities that we aren’t good enough.
I’d love to read Elora’s journey. I think for me, beauty has pursued me in the form of my husband and his continuous pursuit of me…speaking truth and life into me even when I don’t want it or see it. Such a grace.
I love this Jessica. Our husbands should be the greatest pursuer of this, and I rejoice when that happens. It really is grace.
That sounds like an awesome book. There are so many women out there who’ve suffered because they haven’t been told they’re beautiful no matter what.
(I don’t want to win the ebook.)
Yes. When Paul calls women the weaker vessel I think he had many different reasons. He knew how fragile women’s hearts are. I know he had to have seen it. And Jesus for sure knew it, He communed with the woman at the well. Interesting that it was He that pursued her. Even in her sin. He saw the beauty that was deep within her.
Would love to read this book! I stumbled across Elora’s blog a few months ago and have been following ever since.
Love this line “more often than not we miss the beauty within ourselves.” Isn’t that the truth? Think this book will be a powerful one for women to read.
Thanks for visiting Nicole.