Proverbs 31: Day 3: Someone I Know Who Inspires Beauty

This is the easiest question to answer. Without a doubt, this person is the love that God gave me 9 years ago and is still my love today (and hopefully for a very long time in the future.) I prayed for my husband since I was younger than Ellie. I remember doing it. I prayed for him as he grew up and I like to think that God was with him in part because of my prayers for him, even though I did not know him! My Greg is my gift to me....

I feel like I am simply copying what my friend Katie wrote on her blog, but it is totally true....so Katie, sorry! My husband inspires beauty in me because he already thinks that I am.....no matter what. When I dress up, I dress up for him. I know the kinds of clothes that he likes me to wear, so I go out of my way to wear them. But really, it does not even matter that I do. He thinks I am the most beautiful person on the planet. I could probably go around the house all day in sweats and no makeup and gross hair and he would think I was hot. But the thing is, I don't want to.....because I want to please him!

I want to make my home beautiful as a sanctuary for my entire family so they feel safe, loved and when they walk in the door, I want them to sigh and inwardly say "I am home." I can not write this post only about my husband because my kids also make me strive for beauty in my life! My kids and husband both inspire that beauty within me because it is the true desire of me as a homemaker/mom to do that for them! I want my daughter to be able to emulate true beauty when she grows up by modeling me.....and man that is a hard pill to swallow. Because good or bad, beautiful or ugly, she will emulate that. The hardest thing for me as a mom is to see her modeling my ugly behavior and realizing that it is my fault that she is acting that particular way.

My kids and husband inspire me to be beautiful both on the outside and the inside because I want them to have beautiful memories of their mom someday when I am in heaven and they are on earth. I want them to look at me and immediately think of inward beauty before they think of my many flaws that show up way too often in every part of my life!

I truly feel that the highest calling in life is doing what I am doing. Things on this earth and other jobs will disappear and not mean much......but our legacy as wives and mothers will remain. That's is why my husband and kids inspire me to be beautiful......it is something I have to daily strive for, or it will not be the case.