Linking up again with Five Minute Friday at the wonderful Lisa-Jo Baker‘s.
The rules: write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
Hop over to her place to find out the full scoop behind FMF, and to visit other posts that were freely written in just five minutes.
This weeks prompt: BEAUTIFUL
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What a word. It’s loaded, really. Those letters can make or break someone. Books and songs and movies have been written on that one word, and here we are for five sweet minutes. Uffda. =)
There are images that my heart conjures when I hear that word. My wedding day. Husby’s eyes. Our sons smile, toes, elbow dimples. The trees in the back, rustling with the wind. The dock at the bible camp where I fell in love with beauty Himself. Leaves of scarlet, crunching underfoot. Glistening snow, untouched yet by footprints.
These speak beauty to me, yet I want to speak beauty to you. I want to tell you that you are just that – beautiful.
You.
You with the stretch marks. You with the scars. You with the untold, hiding deep. You with the poufy hair. You without the new clothes.
You are beautiful.
Because when He looks at you through the lens of His son, He sees it. He sees the Beloved and beautiful you.
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ps- I’m writing this on my phone, in the car! It’s a whole new level of blogging! =)
-anna
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So very true… So many thoughts from the world about beauty, but God created us – and He sees us through His eyes. What a blessing.
Hope you have a great weekend!
Danielle
SewMuchCrafting.com
that’s some good writing in your car on the PHONE! lol
it’s hard to remember sometimes that we are created perfectly in His image. He is perfect, he makes no mistakes.
Exactly – He does not make mistakes. I told countless campers and youth kids this, yet need to be reminded of it myself so often.
Ok, I absolutely LOVE it that you wrote this from your phone. I hereby vote you #fmfsupergirl. Congratulations. 🙂 (Confession? I had hubby get his iPad and keyboard all ready for me in case I had to write from the car on the way home from fireworks. HA!) You are awesome. And I love this post…sometimes it does so much for my heart to be reminded that He sees beauty in me, especially when I don’t see it in myself. Blessings and happy Friday, sweet friend. 🙂
HA!!! I admit, I felt a little like a rockstar =) We were totally driving home from the fireworks too!! Thanks for coming over. I so appreciate it and am loving getting to know you via these weekly posts!
From your phone – impressive! What a great way of thinking – “through the lens of His son” – instead of the mess we see in the mirror. Great post! Thanks!
Isn’t it such grace to know that you are beautiful to Him? Love this sweet reminder.
“Because when He looks at you through the lens of His son, He sees it.” — So needed this tonight… and tomorrow morning as I get ready for work and my inner voice starts screaming at me again… Thank you, friend! Beautiful post.
I read yours tonight and thought, oh yes – we can be friends. I totally get her. =) And I truly feel that I needed this reminder tonight, and I needed to write this post for my own heart. Thank you for sharing yours too, and for your kind words here tonight.
What a blessing to read and take to heart, thank you for sharing! And mad props for writing on your phone; not being able to spread my fingers over a keyboard kills my creativity!
It usually squashes mine too! But I think the urgency of tonights word in my heart + the coziness of a car ride with Husby = creative juices =)
In your car? I am so impressed. I joined the FMF Party tonight on my phone and that was kind of hilarious. This is some good stuff. I need that reminder more than I like to admit – that He loves me in spite of the mess, the scars, the everything. “The lens of His son” – that’s some good stuff!
Thank you, Rebekah, for your kind words tonight! It’s wonderful and hard to do all this stuff on our phones, right?! A whole new meaning to ‘fingers a-flying’! =) I needed the prompt from LJ tonight, I think. It did my heart good to write this out.
I think that trying to say that we are ‘beautiful’ is a hard thing…even harder on a phone! But we are beautiful in the only eyes that count, as you pointed out. Thanks for turning it around and letting everyone know that they are beautiful 🙂
Happy Friday!
Ceil
Love this post! Thanks for the encouraging words!
I truly love this, thanks.
I’m amazing at your phone-in-car writing skills.
Beautiful post, really! Your words have such power, and how wonderful to be reminded of the beauty He has created in each of us. Thank you.
Oh if only we would see ourselves through the lens of the Father more often. And I am impressed that you wrote this while in the car, and on your phone! Have a blessed week.
Okay, what app did you use to write it? That’s amazing, you tech-savvy girl with blog you. 🙂
And thank you for the reminder – I think we all need to be reminded of this every once in a while!
You’re too funny =) I just used the WordPress app and my good ol’ thumbs! =)
Loved your post today, friend. Such a lovely scene you depicted. Thanks =)
It looks like we were on the same page but maybe a different paragraph with this prompt. Lately my heart has become so broken for us (women especially) learn to see the beauty within us. Thank you for telling us what we so easily forget.
PS I agree with Mel you are now #fmfsupergirl
I truly never thought I’d see the day where I can see stretch marks as beautiful, but as my two begin to take steps towards leaving our nest, I realize those stretch marks on my belly were only the beginning of the stretching they would cause in my life…God has used it all for our good. Be blessed my friend.
I wrote about the same thing for today’s prompt. I’ve been struggling with this since I gave birth to my daughter 8 months ago. Thanks for the reminder that we are made in His image, we are beautiful in His sight. I’m still working on really believing it though!
You Blogger Ninja you! On your phone!!! In the car!!! That is all kinds of awesome. And thank you for your words friend this —> Because when He looks at you through the lens of His son, He sees it. He sees the Beloved and beautiful you— > This had tears spilling.
Hi Anna! I wrote mine on my phone too! My internet was acting up, ha!
“Because when He looks at you through the lens of His son, He sees it. He sees the Beloved and beautiful you.” Oh no, I think I have something in my eye! :’-)
Thank you for such a sweet reminder of what beauty really is!
No way!! Rock on, fellow phone poster! =)
nice job for writing in the car! I would not have done so well.
I love how you share God’s heart for us beautiful children of His. I am so thankful that He sees us through the lens of His Son.
Love this on so many levels. First, you said Uffda! A fellow Norweigen I presume! What a treat! I have a coffee cup with that phrase on it! 🙂 And I found beauty at camp as well. I think we should be friends. But, thank you most of all, for the way you spoke to me. Yes, me! With my stretch marks and crows feet and muffin top. And even today, with a broken tailbone and lots of reasons to feel un-beautiful. Thank you. Love, love.
So very true — His beauty shines on us and through us – I’m so thankful that His beauty covers my ugly. Loved these words. Have a blessed weekend.
Ha. I wrote mine on my phone one handed because I was nursing a babe. Yay for smart phones! I’m actually reading this from my phone while husband and babe are snoring beside me:). Any ways,
“You with the stretch marks. You with the scars. You with the untold, hiding deep. You with the poufy hair. You without the new clothes.
You are beautiful.
Because when He looks at you through the lens of His son, He sees it. He sees the Beloved and beautiful you.”
THIS. This made me cry. I will whisper this in my daughter’s ear and shout it into her heart from now until eternity.
Yes! Beloved and beautiful you…may we never forget! xo
Thank you for those encouraging words– words we need to hear and take to heart!