“Vanity of Vanities.”

 

It doesn’t matter what age you are.  A young girl looking up to the teenagers or Barbie dolls she plays with, a teen somewhere in the mix of awkward years and school cliques, a college student with the freshman 15 living on pizza and ramen noodles, a new mom always covered in some bodily fluid that’s not your own, a middle age woman finding a new wrinkle, skin tag, or white hair everyday, or a grandma feeling like your slowly becoming irrelevant; struggles with our physical appearance our outward beauty hit everyone.  In this book True Beauty, Carolyn Mahaney and her daughter Nicole Whitacre work to break down the lies of our cultural standard of beauty and pull back the veil on what true beauty is.

“What do we spend the most time thinking and talking about?  What do we give the most money and effort to gain?  Is it glorifying God’s beauty or pursuing glory for our beauty?”  These are three questions we should ask ourselves, or better yet three questions Carolyn and Nicole challenge us to think how our friends and family would answer about ourselves.

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