Monday, September 16, 2013

Glamour & God: An Introduction


My name is Sarah and I am a daughter of the one true King, Jesus Christ. I was raised in the church, so sometimes I try to pull off this façade that I have it all together. Boy, is that a joke! I’ve had my share of unhealthy relationships, physical insecurity, emotional instability, and unmet expectations. The thing is, I’m a simple college girl and I don’t have it all figured out.


I am often times plagued by my not-so-picture-perfect past. But when I surrender these memories and the accompanying feelings of anxiety, disappointment, and heaviness, I am overcome by an indescribable peace. I have come to take comfort in the knowledge that, with the Lord, we can live a beautiful life despite our sin, for it is He who forgives and redeems.

But how can we live this beautiful life when we don’t always feel beautiful? With the daily expectation to reflect the latest fashions and model sizes, it becomes difficult to remember that, as Brit Nicole coined, we’re worth more than gold to God. We were each made the way we are because God finds each one of us to be uniquely beautiful.


Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, The Lord “has made everything beautiful in its time.” God’s definition of beauty is radically different from that of Hollywood’s. “Glamour and God,” therefore, is a collection of my personal thoughts and scriptural notes on how to view the concept of all things image, all things beauty, all things Glamour, through the eyes of our Almighty God.