What is the difference between these two women?

I always tell sisters “Beauty flows from the inner being not the outward appearance”

One day as I read this book and finds what they wrote on their book will brings lots of hope for sisters, girls, ladies, aunties, women.

“Janet is twenty-one. She was on the dance team in high school. Small and petite with a fabulous figure. Unlike so many women in that world of competitive beauty, she escaped an eating disorder. But she runs between five and ten miles a day. She watches what she eats. She’s able to wear the cutest clothes. And yet… when you’re with her, your heart does not rest. Her beauty impresses, but it does not invite. The reason is simple: she is striving. She is a perfectionist (an extra two pounds is a crisis; a pimple is a disaster). Her beauty feels tenuous, shaky. It is not following from her heart. It’s almost as if it’s forced, from t

He outside, through discipline and fear.

June is one of the most beautiful women we have ever met. We encountered her a few years ago while doing a retreat on the coast of North Carolina. Her hair was long, swept up loosely and held by decorative combs. She wore unique, dangly earrings and pretty flowing skirts. Her eyes sparkled when she laughed, which she did often, and her smile lit up the room. She was clearly in love with her husband, her face adoring as she gazed at him. June was at rest with herself, at home in who she was. Talking with her, just being with her, made us feel more at rest with ourselves as well. Her spacious, beautiful soul invited others to come, to be, to taste and see that the Lord is good, whatever was happening in your life. She wept at the retreat. She laughed at the retreat. She was gloriously live and in love, both with her husband and with the God of the Universe.

And Jane was about seventy-five years old.

What is the difference between this two women? Rest. June’s beauty flows from a heart at rest.”

Extraction from John and Stasi Eldredge book – Captivating

Food for thought: Beauty flows from a heart at rest

Cutting down on food intake due to health reason is good but not for the sake of keep fit, beauty look.