I adore fashion...
...but I also find that it leaves something lacking in my soul. Few things give me the thrill that I feel when watching a fashion show or examining the beauty of an exquisitely crafted garment. However, there seems to be a very short satisfaction point in this industry. The love of fashion can easily grow into simply a lust for more and more beauty.
For most of my life, fashion meant appreciating the newest looks and figuring out how to wear them. But lately, I have been feeling like it could mean more - helping other people feel beautiful or by creating a dress that makes a person's life easier. Maybe meaningful fashion is called style and exists to make one's life concurrently simple and beautiful. Can the beauty of fashion have a place in the real world of truth and bring to us any of the meaningfulness of love?
"People will remember almost nothing of what you tell them and only slightly more of what you do. But they will remember for the rest of their lives how you made them feel." - Randall Wallace, film screen writer and director (as quoted in World magazine)
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Saying "YES"!
So, my first issue was learning to say "no". (Still working on that - more to come in future posts.) But to what should I say "yes"?
I asked myself, "What does my soul crave?" I wrote down all of the answers that came to my mind. The overarching theme seemed to be a phrase I heard years ago - "truth, beauty, and love". All three are essential. If you lose one, you become unbalanced.
What form should "truth, beauty, and love" take in my life? Obviously, I want to retain my position as wife to my husband and mother to my children. This position seems to be primarily about love but based on truth and needs beauty to be enjoyable. Beyond that, I feel I have a dream in my DNA to artistically create something bigger than myself. This dream is initially driven by a pursuit of beauty but starts to die when I do not incorporate the meaningfulness of love and the reality of truth.
What does your soul crave? What dream is in your DNA?
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