True Beauty

Do I love you because you're beautiful
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
--Oscar Hammerstein

Once, a powerful king agreed to help a small, lost boy find his mother. Since the boy described his mother as the most beautiful woman in the world, the king commanded all the beautiful women in the kingdom to come to the castle.

From miles around, they came--women with complexions of porcelain and hair of spun gold, with cheeks the color of apricots and eyes as dark as the raven's. But none of them was the boy's mother. When the last of the women had paraded before them, and the king and the boy had begun to despair, they heard a timid knock on the door. "Come in," the king said wearily. In shuffled an old washer woman, her grey hair tied up in a kerchief, her hands rough and red, her dress coarse and patched.

"Mother!" the boy cried when he saw her, and he leapt from his chair and raced into the woman's arms. The king stared in amazement.

Will I be able to see the real beauty in others today?

Well yes this indeed reminded me that God looks at the heart and not in the outward appearance. And because we are weak, we are allowed to be used by Him for his purpose. So when we look at the people around us do we only look out for the beautiful people? Well i guess at certain points in life we do, and i am guilty of that .. must remember must be graceful because we have received to utmost grace for the Creator.

And also to you who is beautiful because you are ... and because i love you too .. haha =)