Kristen at Moms Sharpening Moms shares a beautiful story about being beautiful in his eyes and in His eyes.

I’m standing at the kitchen sink where soapy dishes have my attention. My man comes up behind me, strong hands then arms pull me towards him.

Then he kisses my neck and says, “I love you.”

“I love you, too, Baby.” I say this absentmindedly, more focused on stubborn dish stains than his warm words. Then he says,

“You are so beautiful.”

This stops me in my tracks and I turn around, sudsy hands midair.

My reply is always the same, “I don’t know how you find me beautiful, but I’m thankful you do.”

He smiles. “You are. You are just beautiful.”

His lips are on mine.

I love it when he tells me I am beautiful. I need him to tell me he loves me, but I want him to tell me I’m beautiful.

I wrestle with my birth defect, my scars from surgeries and my stomach that clearly stretched to hold twins. When it’s just me and my skin, I see many imperfections. Many reasons to believe beauty is missing.

Yet, my man does not. Not in my physical form.

After 15 flawed and fantastic years of marriage, he views me as whole and beautiful as he did on our wedding day. In those eyes of his-those uncritical eyes- he repeatedly reflects the Father’s love. My scars, my deformed chest, my motherhood marks…these are not in his vision. They aren’t in His, either.

“The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

1 Samuel 16:7

My man looks at the heart, and mine shows scars and stretch marks, too. So does his. Some of these are good. They are evidence that we have been to battle and come out bruised and stretched but better together. Our marriage is solid only because of the Rock on which we stand.

“My beloved is mine and I am his.” Song of Solomon 2:16

Thank you Kristen for those wise words and for sharing your heart with us!

Your love stories inspire us, please keep sending them! Email to malia@blissfullydometic.com.

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