True beauty

To the women in my life:   

You are beautiful.
I'm not talking about a pretty face or nice hair or the color of your eyes.
I'm talking about you, all of you, from the inside out.  You are daughters of God.  

You have inherited love and kindness, thoughtfulness, courage and virtue from Him.
These things are beautiful.  And in you, they are beauty- true beauty, lasting beauty, 

the only kind that really matters in the end.  

No matter what others may say or do to you, they cannot change the fact of your beauty,
the truth of it, the reality of it.  It just is. . . the truth.  The words and actions of others are not who you are, they do not define you. Those words and actions define them.
You define you and God defines you.  

You come from Him and there is divine potential within you.  

Can you understand what I'm saying?  Can you even begin to realize how awesome you are?  Do you believe who you are? Yes, that's right, a daughter of God, literally.

True beauty is not what others think of you, or how others see you; it's not what's on the surface; it's the goodness and love that's knit into the fibers of your spirit; it's nobility and patience in the face of trial and hardship; it's joy and gratitude in the simple things in life.

You are beauty.  No one can change that.  It's just who you are.  

You come from God and He defines you and so do you.