Learning to Choose Grace

You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you. (Song of Songs 4:7)

Dove launched their Beautiful campaign to help women see that feeling beautiful is a choice that each one of us can make everyday. Recently, one of the commercials from that campaign hit home for me. In the commercial, women from five cities around the world approached a building and were given the choice of two doors through which they could enter. They were being filmed, but didn’t know it. One door had the word “beautiful” on a sign hanging over it and the other had the word “average” above it. The number of gorgeous women who chose the “average” door surprised me, and the ones who chose the “beautiful” door second guessed themselves. At first, I watched in confusion, and then I realized that I would have done the same thing. Continue reading “Learning to Choose Grace” →