Extreme Beauty

I was watching the show Extreme Makeover last night, I always find myself morbidly fascinated. It amazes me what surgeons can do to a person to make them look more attractive supposedly. But I found myself thinking last night, how does God feel? It says in Psalm 139 verse 14, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works.” That being the case that we are all in God eyes a piece of extraordinary workmanship what a slap in the face that it must be to Him when people want nose jobs, bigger breasts, squarer jaws and straighter teeth. It is also true that my gender is the worst! Whatever happened to wanting to be unique?
Now I know that plastic surgery has done wonders for the medical profession, (I am having a limp corrected in the near future), so people who have medical conditions and will be healthier as a result of having plastic or corrective surgery I have no problem with. But shows like Extreme Makeover are taking normal people who have nothing wrong with them, (except a lack of self esteem) and putting them under the knife and turning them into Hollywood clones. In essence these people are saying that what God did wasn’t good enough. What an insult!
As a woman of the 21st century it is horrendous battle trying not to get sucked into the beauty myth myself. But having a correct sense of what it means to be truly beautiful helps. For me the Proverbs 31 woman has it down to an art. This proverb speaks nothing of looks. In fact it clearly states, “Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised.” Proverb 31 speaks of doing good to all and giving of oneself to other without complaint. Beauty is not a way of looking, but a way of being, it is an attitude that we can all choose.