I have been reading a book titled "Created to Be His Help Meet". In that book there is a section about how people, husband's specifically, find you more attractive when you are smiling and joyful. I found it very interesting, as I grow closer with God and have a strong desire to be the best wife EVER.
The book gives an example of an ugly hillbilly women to prove the point. The writer says that the ugly hillbilly women is always smiling and being happy with customers of a store where she works. She noticed that the women was always surrounded by multiple people that enjoyed her company. The customers were attracted to her joy. The writer's husband even called the woman cute. Her joy made her cute.
One day, the writer and her husband saw the same woman in the grocery store yelling at her kids. She had, apparently, what I call mean mommy face. The writer's husband said that he had never seen that woman before. The writer explained that it was the "cute" woman from the store. Ha!
Well, last night my husband and I were watching "Along came a Spider". Monica Potter is one of the main characters. I commented that she was very pretty and had a cuteness about her. She was a US Secret Service Agent. She had a joyful innocence about her. It made her glow.
Spoiler alert, the Monica Potter character becomes the bad guy at the end of the movie. I remember commenting to Paul that she was not pretty anymore. I could jot find beauty in her. When she became a bad, nasty, evil person, I couldn't find beauty in her. The writer's point was made. I had never even thought of it.
I guess my reason for all of this is to say this...glow with joy-put on a smile. God would rather see you smile and be joyful. Your husband, your friends, your enemies, all find you more attractive when you show joy. You are loved and cared for by the Almighty. What's not to be joyful about!?!
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