my favorite models
Kathy on Jan 9th 2010
I saw a model this morning while shopping in Walmart. Her picture is not going to be on the front page of the world’s fashion magazines. But she’s one of the top models in my book!
Walking down the store’s main aisle, my husband David and I spotted this model ahead, she stood out above the rest. All we could see was her back but being dressed modestly stood out in itself. She had long grey hair, caught up in a pretty barrette, flowing down her back. David wondered aloud if we knew her. Just then she turned her cart into an aisle to our left and now I could see her profile. I recognized her and called out her name. As she turned, she greeted us with kind words, clear eyes and a lovely smile. And though the traces of time had gently etched her face she still had a natural beauty of her own.
But natural beauty isn’t why I admire her and write about her today. My admiration comes from observing an inward beauty that started with following Jesus Christ and has never faded but, in fact, has become even more beautiful through the years.
Sure, life has brought her many ups and downs with twists and turns along the way, as life does. But it encourages me to see her steadily going onward, no matter what happens or who leaves the path to follow another ‘new and improved’ way. The passing of time has proved that this model has her mind made up to stay with the tried and true word of God and its principles. She is continuing to follow the same path that women of God have walked before her in times past…bearing the fruit of the spirit, ie., love, joy, peace, patience…etc., what naturally comes of righteousness or right living, as the Bible teaches.
I will do well to follow her example in the way I walk, talk, dress and act rather than the latest models in the media, any day! I need to be compassionate towards them and pray for them but by no means should I hold them up as ones to imitate in dress, speech or actions.
I want to say a public thank you to all the women -from young to old- who as the model I spoke of in this article, have not caved to the pressure of the times. They don’t buy in to the painted up, marked on, pierced, stripped of decent clothing, etc., and the ‘do this to be accepted by the crowd’ look. My mother taught me it was attractive to have a clean, natural look. And she told me it was wise to look for clothes with classic lines that wouldn’t go out of style. Godliness modeled in speech, action and dress is both wise and classic…it is very attractive, and always in style.
To my precious sisters in Christ Jesus: Don’t give up true beauty for the glittery, cheap imitation of beauty the world pushes. You are the real models…the models who this world, and our little girls, desperately need!
Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me.