While a book written
for women with the word beauty in the
title could easily have been another mundane monologue about how being obese
(unhealthy) is acceptable because everyone
is beautiful, this book was much, much more than that.
Beauty Begins by
mother-daughter team Chris Shook and Megan Shook Alpha is an easily held
hardcover gem that reminds women that beauty begins with the Creator. A
beautiful woman is one who clothes herself with the wardrobe God gives us as outlined
in Colossians 3:12-14.
The 200-page book is a
quick read divided into three sections (“The Beautiful Truth,” “The Beautiful
Struggle,” and “The Beautiful Rebellion”) each containing three chapters. Each
chapter begins with a Bible verse and a quote.
The book was written
with striking intentionality. Often when reading a book splattered with Bible verses
I tend to skip over the verses, but each verse these women chose to include
spoke to me.
The essence of the
authors’ message is found on page 43: “The answer to beauty is not outer
appearance, because that’s not the source of beauty.” Beautiful. This is a book
I wish I had read as a teenager and is sure to be an inspiring book for woman
of all ages.
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