Welcome to the beauty within...

The Beauty Within...

It's time... Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the hotest after all... LOL i truly don't want to know what my mirror would say. Why are we so conserned about the beauty outside. We wear make up to hide the flaws, and they say that the clothes make the man or woman, in my case. But do we really need it, any of it? I am not saying that wearing make up is bad I am not saying that wearing nice clothes is bad. What I am saying is that maybe we focus too much on the outer look than we focus on the inter beauty.

Welcome to Redefining Beauty.. Where the wonder of God’s Love is more than you could ever imagine. My name is Hope Bolton. My 15 year old daughter, Cheyenne, started this ministry. She was watching a news program that featured a group of girls who decided that they wanted to show their high school and the world that it’s not all the makeup and clothes that make you beautiful. So they started a club called Redefining Beautiful. They take a day out of the week and wear the club t shirts and no makup. As Cheyenne watched this she decided that it was a wonderful idea and she wanted to start it at her school, Strawberry Crest. While Cheyenne was getting her information together, thanks to Pastor Randy Humphrey, she decided that this was something much bigger than just her school. While she pondered the idea of taking this out to the world she got a few friends to do No Makeup Mondays. . I truly commend her because in school I thought you needed makeup to be beautiful. But my daughter goes even further and doesn’t just do the no makeup Mondays she doesn’t wear makeup most of the time. My husband and I have raised her to know that you shouldn’t care what others think of you, you care how you feel about yourself and always remember that God thinks you’re gorgeous.
So when she came to me and said that it was too hard to start a club at the high school and that she wanted to start a ministry called Redefining Beauty. I thought awe how wonderful ,my daughter is gonna start a ministry. Wooooo Hoooo… then I sat back and realized that this isn’t just a ministry for teen girls, it’s a ministry for all women no matter what shape, size or age. So, we set off on this wonderful mission for God. Our first luncheon to introduce the world to the Redefining Beauty ministry was a very wonderful success. 20 people came and we were excited. I was especially excited because I only had enough food for about 25 people. We were nervous but things went well. At the end we had women telling us it was fantastic and that they wanted us to come speak with their women and teen girls groups. Wooo Hooo… but realizing that this could spread to be a larger ministry shocked us to the bone. But as I spoke to my daughter about how large this could be I found things running thru my mind such at wow we could do a drama to our theme song. We could get shirts made. This will reach ….. Wow a lot of women and teens. Now I don’t do well in front of large crowds. I get nervous and start to do the ummmmmm thing. But I sat down and thought hummmmmm God what is it that you want from this ministry. I feel that you wouldn’t have got it started if you didn’t want us to go out into the world, wait let’s start small, go out into Plant City and let women know that it’s you that makes us beautiful. So we started this ministry to help all women know God is love and the love we have for him radiate out of us and make our beauty shine through all the worldly things.
High school, we all have either been there or are going there and it’s not what we expect. I went to high school in the ‘80’s. MC Hammer pants, big hair, polo shirts, baby blue eye shadow, Duran Duran in the cassette player. Yea it was a crazy time. I went to school always self concise of my weight, my clothes, my makeup. Will I see “him”… who ever “him” was that week. And will he notice me. I remember walking by the “him” it was that week and he looked at me and I said hi and smiled my biggest smile I could and he just looked at me with this look as if I was an alien. Okay so maybe he didn’t know my name but hey he could at least have said hi. I remember thinking maybe I didn’t have the right clothes or makeup on. I would stand in front of the mirror and ask that person in the mirror what she was doing and why she wasn’t skinny. Why her hair didn’t look as good as the other girls and why she couldn’t get a boyfriend. Funny thing was she never answered me she just waited for an answer from me. But time went on and I graduated. I got out of school and found out that being out in the world was no different. I still wondered why I didn’t have a boyfriend, why I was so fat, why my makeup didn’t look like the girls in the magazine and why I didn’t have the fancy clothes. Granted out in the world I never made anyone think I was unhappy with what you saw. But deep inside I wanted to be noticed. I did get a boyfriend and married and have to wonderful children.
But I didn’t realize till I had a little girl how my high school experience affected me. My husband and I taught her from 4 years old that she was beautiful no matter what anyone said. Well as much as you can teach a 4 year old as she runs around you…She didn’t need makeup to be beautiful if she was happy with herself that is all that mattered. She was to look at herself and ask do I like how I look and would God be proud of it or like how I look. I could talk the talk but didn’t walk the walk. I always wore makeup and wanted to be skinny and needed the approval of people. Granted it is nice to have the approval of your husband, boyfriend, family & friends. But I didn’t realize how wonderful it was to have God’s approval. How great it is to have God say you are beautiful just the way you are my daughter. He put in the bible, in his word, that you don’t need the adornments to be beautiful. I’m not saying that you can’t wear makeup, have the nice clothes, get your hair or nails done… No these are things that you can do but don’t base your life on this. God puts an inter beauty in you. The light that shines from a woman or teen age girl who has Christ in her is more beautiful than anything you will ever see. My daughter has made me realize this. It is wonderful to know that I went through all I did in school to learn at the age of 44 that God was all I needed. What is more precious is that God used my 15 year old daughter to help me realize that I don’t need makeup to make me look special and beautiful because God made me in his image and he is wonderful and beautiful. God doesn’t make mistakes and everything he makes is beautiful. He tells us we are fearfully and wonderfully made. That we are more precious that jewels.
Wear makeup don’t wear makeup, have fancy clothes or just ripped up jeans and a t-shirt, your hair in a pony tail or all made up it doesn’t matter, what matters is the inter beauty that you illuminate for the world to see. The light of God.