tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post8638117204745237319..comments2024-01-23T03:32:55.662-05:00Comments on The Beautiful Gate: Wrinkles! Flab! Gray Hair!Mary N.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06618318192221168152noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-46958735184462683472009-09-20T12:54:33.162-04:002009-09-20T12:54:33.162-04:00Funny, John! The word "excessively" is d...Funny, John! The word "excessively" is duly noted :) Love, your sister with the 3 gray hairs. Oops! Make that 4! Ha!Ha! Did you notice dandy rhymes with Randy? Just kidding!Mary N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06618318192221168152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-70296821091018673662009-09-19T23:51:07.523-04:002009-09-19T23:51:07.523-04:00Mary vain? :o I think not! Your eyes are clearly f...Mary vain? :o I think not! Your eyes are clearly focused on the Lord and not upon yourself except as a desire to grow even closer to the Lord.<br /><br />Your Brother's Thoughts...<br />Love,<br />John<br /><br />p.s. I looked up vain. "excessively proud of or concerned about one's own appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.; conceited: a vain dandy." Not a match Mary! Note the keyword "excessively"... :)JDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08529231935153650215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-90254910109257363462009-09-18T11:29:57.086-04:002009-09-18T11:29:57.086-04:00Funny and cute post. I have had bleached blonde h...Funny and cute post. I have had bleached blonde hair for about 8 years, maybe more and my gray hairs just blended in with the blonde. Now that I have dyed my hair back dark, I now have a new worry... all those nasty gray hairs showing. I'm 32, and I'm lucky to look young for my age. I'm now worried about the gray hair growing in between dye jobs, scary. I never had to worry about this before. I'm afraid it will make me look my age or older. Why does being a woman have to be so difficult? <br /><br />Men have it easy, they get better with age.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00433125265636551803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-16934310590606063242009-09-18T10:31:01.586-04:002009-09-18T10:31:01.586-04:00I was reflecting on my comment here, saying we sho...I was reflecting on my comment here, saying we shouldn't spend excessive time on our looks, and realized I had just spent lots of time on updating the looks of my blog! I beleive there is a balance, and of course when someone has a birth defect like a cleft palate that gets in the way of their health, they seek corrective measures. We always need God's wisdom to do what is best.Kayhttp://womanatwell.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-19772012249994187422009-09-18T08:15:03.865-04:002009-09-18T08:15:03.865-04:00You are doing your daughter a great favor by helpi...You are doing your daughter a great favor by helping her accept herself. Excessive preoccupation with our looks is a major time-waster, to say nothing of our inner contentment. I wish I had known this better when I was younger, but thank the Lord I realize it now.<br /><br />Also--thanks for your comments on my blog (womanatwell).Kayhttp://womanatwell.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-29768571756637502762009-09-17T22:49:34.658-04:002009-09-17T22:49:34.658-04:00I hope your daughter grows to appreciate her uniqu...I hope your daughter grows to appreciate her uniqueness. I'll admit that I was picked on as a kid for my birthmark and it really did bother me sometimes. Even now I sometimes pay for things out of my left hand even though I'm right handed so people don't comment. I get sick of cashiers asking what happened (as if it's any of their business anyways). But it's true that God makes us how we are for a reason, even if we don't know it yet.<br /><br />But even if there's something that we don't quite like about ourselves, sometimes we do have crosses to bear, and it helps us see our imperfections and look to heaven with yearning, which isn't a bad thing.<br /><br />Anyways, sorry for the long comment. I just really hope your daughter doesn't hate hers. I wish that people didn't have such a focus on being a perfect human being, since that is impossible.Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18037863893536646602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-52856464381157045392009-09-17T21:17:41.297-04:002009-09-17T21:17:41.297-04:00If it's good enough for God, it's good eno...If it's good enough for God, it's good enough for me! Great attitude!Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06195528409761980551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-7312556014650372922009-09-17T20:56:20.110-04:002009-09-17T20:56:20.110-04:00Thanks Gabriella! I agree. I just want to be caref...Thanks Gabriella! I agree. I just want to be careful in what I teach Michaela.Mary N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06618318192221168152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-90112010617156512952009-09-17T20:46:37.003-04:002009-09-17T20:46:37.003-04:00Rachel,
Exactly! I want my daughter to feel beaut...Rachel, <br />Exactly! I want my daughter to feel beautiful on the inside and to look at others this way,also. We are all God's children.Mary N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06618318192221168152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-85735850411098050492009-09-17T18:16:17.413-04:002009-09-17T18:16:17.413-04:00Women AND men are taught that if they don't lo...Women AND men are taught that if they don't look like a toned, buffed, 20-something year old at all times they are "damaged goods" and unworthy of things like love or to be the desire of someone's heart. Being in a wheelchair AND in my late 40's I struggle with feelings of being "unacceptable" appearance-wise....especially of those extra 20 pounds I put on over the past few years. Hopefully we'll teach our children what "beauty" REALLY is and how to see it in themselves and in others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-22742919671631640842009-09-17T17:28:19.436-04:002009-09-17T17:28:19.436-04:00What a beautiful post Mary and it reflects my thou...What a beautiful post Mary and it reflects my thoughts in full.<br /><br />We have to be careful though not to confuse a good healthy physical neatness with senseless vanity :) Many of us Catholics have to be careful because fighting immodesty and vanity and pride does not mean going around shabby, with grey hair, or gloomy looking ;)<br /><br />A hug to Michaela.Gabriellahttp://gabriella50.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-3821182292237217642009-09-17T17:07:17.118-04:002009-09-17T17:07:17.118-04:00My daughter has one on her back. It's quite la...My daughter has one on her back. It's quite large and grows as she does. Hopefully it won't bother her as she gets older.Mary N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06618318192221168152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449799335048031917.post-43740328252844361572009-09-17T13:02:48.858-04:002009-09-17T13:02:48.858-04:00Yes, it is unfortunately how vain our world has be...Yes, it is unfortunately how vain our world has become.<br /><br />That was certainly a good point of view your daughter had when you changed the way you looked. Although a perm isn't being too vain I don't think ;)<br /><br />I think we all suffer with vanity at some point in time. It's important to not become stuck in it, and it appears to me that you're doing a good job.<br /><br />I was born with a port wine stain birthmark covering 3 of my fingers and palm on my right hand. I was always given the option to have it removed, but I figure, God made me this way so there's obviously a point to it. So why should I change the way I look just to fit in with how everyone else looks?Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18037863893536646602noreply@blogger.com