1. It's really, really hard to maintain physical beauty when you get old and your feet hurt. You look haggard and you feel cranky.
2. Then there's the beauty of the home - also hard to maintain with paper clutter piles and chipped paint on the walls and the leavings from too many exhausted days all strewn together.
3. Take nature. Maybe there's a rustic beauty when weeds have overtaken the land to the point that you cannot walk through the bramble, but it takes a fairly primitive sort to appreciate that.
4. Carefully tended outdoor beauty is actually rather nice - freshly mowed grass, weeded gardens, ponds with trickling water to induce a more relaxed and meditative state.
5. A lot of exterior beauty is hard to maintain - bodies, homes, yards - but so is inner beauty. People aren't just born beautiful in the inside. They have to work at it.
6. The best way to develop inner beauty is first to witness it. You have to see someone who is beautiful on the inside, someone who glows a little, who smiles and shows kindness. That kind of beauty beckons and causes desire to grow within.
7. We can ask for beauty - ask God to grow within us and and help form us that way. But then we have to be ready to act on the guidance we receive that is sometimes painful - like forgiving mean and nasty people who wreck havoc in our lives. Only then do we become beautiful.
8. We must be vigilant in caring for and loving beauty or it quickly slips away.
9. Beauty is the clearest sign we have of God's presence on earth - other than kindness. But kindness is beauty.
10. Grace, love, peace, harmony, goodness, gentleness - all the noble virtues are beautiful.
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