Tell Me I'm Beautiful

I highly doubt it's possible to be told you're beautiful by thin air. If it were possible girls wouldn't always want males to tell them how beautiful they are. Yet, because us poor females cannot be affirmed by a passing breeze, we have to be told we're beautiful - by boys. As I grow older I can feel the need, even passion, to be told I'm pretty by somebody other than my parents or family. I expect most girls agree with me on this. Now don't get me wrong, it's great to be affirmed by the people who love us most, but honestly we want to be told we are beautiful by other people too.

So the other day I was reading my bible. And as I was reading I was told I was beautiful! Really, I was told that I am beautiful. I tried to wrap my brain around how God has called me beautiful without really noticing it before! He told me I was beautiful, when a normal boy didn't. The verse I ran across was this:

"You're so beautiful, my darling, so beautiful, and your dove eyes are veiled
By your hair as it flows and shimmers,
like a flock of goats in the distance
streaming down a hillside in the sunshine."
Song of Solomon 4:1-2

I'm not sure if I'm right, but I'm pretty sure that God said all girls, all daughters, are beautiful. Why did I have this petty desire to be called "beautiful" by a dude when my Lord could call me that? Why hadn't I noticed that Jesus calls me beautiful? The answer: Because I didn't look.

If you liked a boy, and you lived thousands of miles apart, and you could never call or text him, but only email and write letters to him, wouldn't you read the letters he sent? In fact, wouldn't you read them over and over and over? Probably. So then, let's say that God's the boy you like, and He sends you all these great letters (the Bible), but you never look at them. So then how can you know if he really loves you, if he cares and is giving you advice, or if he's calling you gorgeous when you never read the letters? You can't know if you don't read all of His letters. So start reading! ;)