Tonight's enrichment was about makeovers. They talked about being healthy, makeup, hair (I missed that part), clothes, and inner beauty.
Laura talked about inner beauty, and started by putting up on the chalkboard 3 things:
Name
lbs
size
She then listed her own. I think they'll probably be burned into my memory forever. I couldn't believe she'd done that! Then Shauna volunteered. She's tiny. Then I volunteered. I heard a great chorus of "But she's pregnant!"
So? So what if I'm pregnant? That adds a bump in the middle and a very few pounds elsewhere. It's not like the baby is 100, and the rest is me! That and my size hasn't changed. I've long since come to terms with the fact that I'm no stick girl. Never have been, never will be. I'm a big beautiful woman. And after having so many functions of my body taken away from me, I will never again take it for granted. It's amazing that I can breathe, eat, and walk... and someday run again.
Besides any body that can manage to make 4 beautiful boys (as I'm sure the last will be too) must be a wonderous thing.
Oh yeah, it's a boy.
1 comment:
That sounds like a fun lesson. Why did she have everyone list those things? What else did she talk about?
Someone in my ward made the insightful comment that all you can see of people in the temple are the two things that matter most - a person's face and their hands. And, you know, that is what really makes a person who they are. You can kind of tell what they are like by looking at their face and knowing what they do with their hands. Now I look at people in the temple and think, "I wonder what that person has done with her hands" or "Maybe she's got such a cute twinkle in her eye because she's used her hands wisely all of her life." Most often, we forget about a person's face and hands because we are way too preoccupied with the rest of the body - and, ironically, it's the rest of the body that doesn't matter at all. Satan wants us to focus on the rest of the body. He would have us focus on our looks - that our body is only for looks. But looks change - we will all look like our grandpas and grandmas. I think Heavenly Father wants us to focus on what we can DO with our bodies - how we can serve them, love them, and uplift them. How we can use our hands to serve, our mouth to speak kind words, our backs to curry a burden, etc.
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