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Helps for Marriage Size Does Matter Kim A Goodin I bet when you read the title you thought this would be a devotional about sexual relations in marriage. While that is important, that isn't what I am going to be sharing about today. We will be talking about body size: more of an all over body size instead of any one part. I have spoken to many husbands about body size and weight. Almost all the husbands I have spoken to honestly believe their own wife to be beautiful no matter what size she happens to be. Only one husband I have spoken to was so obsessed with his wife's weight gain after marriage that he is now single again after two failed marriages, partly due to his not seeing his wife as beautiful any longer. Most young wives have come to believe if they don't have that "Barbie Doll" style figure that they aren't beautiful to their husbands any more. Let's face it a "Barbie Doll" figure is not humanly possible. Maintaining the teenage figure of a new bride after years of marriage and having children is also humanly impossible. We all grow older and our bodies change. Sadly many in today's society have bought into the media's "airbrushed" and "surgically altered" appearance of what a "normal healthy woman" should look like. None of that is real. But to a lot of women it is real. Size does matter. Sadly many wives don't believe that their husbands HONESTLY find them attractive, sexy, and every bit as beautiful as any other woman that they might want to compare themselves too. These negative images of themselves quickly leads to depression and low self-esteem no matter how much their husband might try to convince them of their beauty. Businesses spend billions of dollars trying to convince you that you need something more to look better: a new diet, pills, special make-up, new clothes. or whatever the newest trend may be. They use "sex" to push their wares using carefully picked young models to convince a much older audience that they too can have whatever the model has if only they will use their product. Have you ever asked yourself how this model got this way by using a brand new product just released on the market? HOGWASH!! Most likely they never used the product themselves. I actually have to laugh at the new exercise machines as they come on the market. I mean let's get real these "actors" selling the gadget already looked fit long before the product they are pushing ever got to the store shelves. I know whole books have been written about a woman's emotions and self-esteem being directly related to their body style and weight gain. So I can't begin to cover this topic of how size matters in a brief devotional. I do want to remind all the wives who are reading this that their husbands truly see them as beautiful and sexy. To the husbands who might be reading this I want to remind you to keep reminding your wife of how beautiful she really is to you. AND to all: I want to remind you that you were created in GOD'S IMAGE and God loves you as you are. God doesn't make mistakes. Phil 4:11 states: "for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content." Don't worry about your appearance to other men but instead take pride in knowing you are beautiful in God's eyes and most likely the most beautiful woman in the world in your own husband's eyes. Yes strive for good health with proper diet and exercise so you will look your best and enjoy feeling good in both body and mind. BUT don't stress so much about appearances that you lose sight of how beautiful you really are. |
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