Elegance

I just finished another book entitled Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro. It’s actually a novel. But the writer’s writing style is inspired by Elegance, a book by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux. The Elegance by GAD was a guiding inspiration for this book.

It’s a story of an American woman, Louise Cannova living in England. Recently divorced, she just realizes that after being mistaken as pregnant, she has to do something about it. And she picks up a book by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux and it became her guideline with her pursuit of getting elegant. Genevieve apparently wrote fashion tips from A-Z. The flow of the story goes with that.

Louise religiously follows the tips. She painstakingly goes to the gym, changed her diet (and if i was the author, i would throw in her popping in those top rated diet pills for an effect) but at the end of the day, she realizes that elegance can be acquired only at the price of numerous errors that are best remembered with good humour and in the end, it is in the moments when we forget ourselves entirely that we are at our most beautiful.

That’s exactly what the world describes as beautiful.

But for me, being beautiful is not skin deep. It’s beyond what we can see by our naked eyes. The heart reflects what’s really inside. And the heart, of all things, reflects the true beauty of a woman. God is beauty. And when we have God in our hearts, we reflect the beauty that is real and radiant. And it glorifies God.

And it makes people wonder. What is it about her? How can she be that confident? Confidence that is void of any insecurities. When I say insecurity, it covers both having superiority complex and inferiority complex. I wouldn’t say which race has which complexities because it is universal. We all, in some way or another, at some point in our lives are insecure, regardless of race… regardless of age.

However, God, in us, gives us the confidence that whatever and whoever we are, we are wonderfully made… and that in itself gives us reason to be proud.. that He made us… and He is in us.

And that’s a real beauty. God. In us.