Dear Beautiful.

Zeyn Afuang
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

You are worth far more than a bouquet of flowers and a box of Ferrero chocolates.

Just because you didn’t have someone to spend with yesterday doesn’t mean you are ugly. Having no one yet doesn’t make you any less than a woman. A girl’s worth is not measured by the amount of attention and effort she gets from men but by how much she sees herself independent of these things.

(Photo by Dominik Martin, from Unsplash)

A beautiful girl is she who’s not in a rush. She who’s waiting not for him but she who’s waiting on Him. She who trusts that God has a perfect season for everything, including her meeting the man who God has prepared for her.

A beautiful girl is she who, instead of dwelling on what she doesn’t have yet, gets every opportunity she can to hone her skills and strives to be a better version of herself every single day.

A beautiful girl is she who trusts God completely because she knows that He knows what He does — that when someone asks, “Why are you still single?” she just shrugs it off and responds, “Is there anything wrong with that?”

A beautiful girl is she who can stand in confidence despite her unpleasant past because she knows that this doesn’t define her as a person. That her identity is found in Christ alone.

A beautiful girl is she who dances in the knowledge that she has been bought with a price — someone who’s mind is free and is not enslaved by the standards of this world (1 Corinthians 7:23).

You see, this feeling of incompleteness — it’s all in the mind. It is what the prince of this world wants you to feel because this is what makes him happy. He rejoices when you are consumed with these thoughts of being alone. Having the idea of someone completing you isn’t completeness at all. It’s purely an illusion brought by Satan’s staunch fervor and unending greed to win you over.

So do not let him!

Know that you are already complete — complete in and through Christ. Don’t let the enemy make you think any less than that.

You are worth far more than a bouquet of flowers and a box of Ferrero chocolates.

You are worth far more, beautiful.

Worth far more than you can ever imagine.


Originally published at www.zeynafuang.com.

Zeyn Afuang

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I craft things into beautiful and creative visual forms. Freelance Graphic Designer / Photographer / Filmmaker / INTJ / Pilipinas 🇵🇭

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