Inner beauty is not a mushy-gushy nougat at the center of your being. It's not a fluffy-fuzzy glow beneath the surface of your skin. Inner beauty is an incredible force of power that transcends all the ugliness of the outside world. Love answers easily to love. Hope fills to overflowing when the horizon looks promising. Peace floats smoothly on a calm sea. Graciousness abounds when life is good. Yet, as we all well know, life is never 'all good'. It takes a fierce amount of strength to face hatred with love, hopelessness with hope, tribulation with peace, and hurt with grace. Inner beauty is an indestructible diamond that finds enough light to reflect itself in a world gone dark. Left to our own devices, love, hope, peace and grace are easily trampled beneath the monstrous feet of greed, jealousy, envy, regret, pain and hatred. Outside support is good and well and kind, but it cannot address what it cannot see. It cannot petition turmoil face to face - in the place where it lives. Issues that reside at the heart level, the soul level, need inside support. When you're weak and weary, when you're tired of being tired, look within for the source of your strength. Look inside for respite from a harsh world. Look deep, look long and look hard for the beautiful dwelling within you. Look for God inside yourself. No...... inner beauty isn't mushy or gushy or fluffy or fuzzy. It doesn't need compliments, recognition or reinforcement to be beautiful. It is an Almighty force - alive and beautiful - that moves you on an upward road every minute of every day of your life. © Terri McPherson Buckley "You Are A Miracle" - The Book! The Flash presentation of "You Are A Miracle" has been viewed by more than one million visitors to WiseHearts.com. The Power Point presentation has been shown to church congregations across the U.S.A., Canada and ten other countries worldwide. "You Are A Miracle" - The Book! A perfect gift for a special occasion or for someone special who needs to be encouraged and lifted up. Framed Prints of: You Are A Miracle I Am Not Gone Words From A Simple Heart: Bookmarks Visit our Online Store The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? focuses on helping readers answer the question, "What on earth am I here for?" Pastor Rick Warren takes the reader on a 40 day journey of discovery to find the divine purpose God has planned for their life. You can purchase Royalty Free Photos from iStock Photo to compose your own online creations for as little as $1.00. © Terri McPherson Buckley Windsor, Ontario, Canada terri@wisehearts.com