PROVERBS 31This is an excerpt from a book I am reading at the moment entitled 'THE ULTIMATE MAKEOVER' BY Sharon Jaynes.
A successful beauty product company asked the people in a large city to send pictures along with brief letters about the most beautiful women they knew. Within a few weeks thousands of letters were delivered to the company.
One letter in particular caught the attention of the employees, and soon it was handed to the company president. The letter was written by a young boy who was obviously from a broken home and living in a run-down neighbourhood. "This beautiful woman lives down the street from me. I visit her every day. She makes me feel like the most important kid in the world. We play checkers and she listens to my problems. She understands me and when I leave she always yells out the door that she's proud of me." The boy ended this letter saying,"This picture shows you that she is the most beautiful woman. I hope I have a wife as pretty as her."
Intrigued by the letter, the president asked to see this woman's picture. His secretary handed him a photograph of a smiling, toothless woman, well advanced in years, sitting in a wheelchair. Sparse gray hair was pulled back in a bun. Wrinkles that formed deep furrows on her face were somehow diminished by the twinkle in her eyes.
This little boy had discovered a valuable truth. Beauty - true beauty - begins on the inside and works its way out.
Fully agreed!!
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