Not Forgotten
"That beauty that you feel on the inside, it's that confidence, that radiance inside of you, that's what glamour is,"
Katie Stam, Miss America 2009
Have you noticed the way babies often have that spontaneous look of gladness? Sometimes I think that's exactly what everyone has, but adults seem to bury that deep under their calculations, their anxities, their posturing ...
Katie Stam, a girl from a small town in Indiana, won the Miss America pageant last night. I found it easy to notice she wasn't pretending to be someone she wasn't. She was just glad to be herself.
My wife got me into watching the episodes before the pageant. She was definitely an underdog candidate coming from a state with a relatively low population in the midwest (where the pool is much smaller, and the state competitions are presumably less competitive than states like New York and California).
Katie sang Via Dolorosa for the talent portion of the pageant. My wife has told me this is a fairly common song heard at pageants, but I found it to be a bold way of explaining what her Saviour had done for her.
All this is to say that we should look at babies and folks like Katie Stam and remember the blessedness, the joy of view the life we have been given with simple eyes and thankful hearts.
Katie Stam, Miss America 2009
Have you noticed the way babies often have that spontaneous look of gladness? Sometimes I think that's exactly what everyone has, but adults seem to bury that deep under their calculations, their anxities, their posturing ...
Katie Stam, a girl from a small town in Indiana, won the Miss America pageant last night. I found it easy to notice she wasn't pretending to be someone she wasn't. She was just glad to be herself.
My wife got me into watching the episodes before the pageant. She was definitely an underdog candidate coming from a state with a relatively low population in the midwest (where the pool is much smaller, and the state competitions are presumably less competitive than states like New York and California).
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!
Matthew 6:30
Katie sang Via Dolorosa for the talent portion of the pageant. My wife has told me this is a fairly common song heard at pageants, but I found it to be a bold way of explaining what her Saviour had done for her.
All this is to say that we should look at babies and folks like Katie Stam and remember the blessedness, the joy of view the life we have been given with simple eyes and thankful hearts.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:8
2 Comments:
That is a very beautiful little girl, BB!
I believe that when we accept Jesus as our Saviour that no matter what we have done, He works in us to bring us into being the person He created us to be; just like your little girl is now. It is wonderful to eternally be a child of God!
"It is wonderful to eternally be a child of God!"
Well said, Joy. Being raised by God as his child gives us a beauty that is not disguising an inner decay. It is an eternal childlikeness, an eternal beauty.
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