Modesty Is Always Beautiful

New Year's Eve is ticking away and soon it will be another year. Looking back it seems like the last year has gone by so quickly and so slowly at the same time. To start the new year off, I thought I'd post a quote from a brilliant man and a few thoughts on it:

G.K. Chesterton said, "Modesty is always beautiful."

G.K. Chesterton presents a very nice thought and when you think the quote over you realize he's not just talking about outward appearance. G.K. Chesterton is also referring to the beauty of the actions of a person. If you really think about it, a person who isn't a showoff is a much more pleasant person. To act with modesty creates kinder feeling toward you and you become someone others are more attracted to. When eyes behold a kind person, they tend to see the beauty in that person. There is a natural attraction to people who are kind and modest.

When a person's actions are modest it becomes part of their personality. Most people tend to dress in styles that reflects their personalities. When modesty becomes part of a person's personality the person tends to dress modestly. Modesty is always beautiful. When a girl dresses with modesty she is truly dressing with beauty; she is dressing to attract to herself, not her clothing or her body.

Attractive and beautiful are words that have very different meanings, but you could substitute "attractive" for "beautiful" in G.K. Chesterton's quote and the meanings become very similar:  "Modesty is always attractive," "Modesty is always beautiful." I believe both are definitely true and I think it's safe to conclude that modesty attracts to a person's beauty, both inward and outward.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! I hope your day was fun and blessed! Mine certainly was; there is nothing like celebrating Christmas with my seven younger siblings. The reactions of the toddlers when they open a gift is priceless. One of my little sisters, age four, is very animated and exclaims "That's what I've always wanted!" quite often after opening a gift, (even if she doesn't know what it is). It's also quite amusing when my two year old, dinosaur-obsessed brother yells "Roar!" when he opens dinosaur gifts. So many interesting things happen Christmas morning with a fantastically large family.

Speaking of gifts, right now I am writing this blog post on my very own laptop! I have been saving up for one and surprise! "Santa" got me a laptop when a store was having an awesome sale. As soon as I tore the wrapping paper off and I saw the picture of a laptop on the box my eyes widened and I hugged the box, crying "my baby!" My biggest and most loved hobby is writing, particularly fictional story writing. Now that I have a laptop I can write more often. Since I'm still just a teenager there will be strict rules for it, but it still opens so many doors! I am really thankful! 

 

Every year I look forward to Christmas mass, not only because it's mass, but also because I usually have a new and nice outfit to wear. Sometimes it's only a new piece or two, but this year I happened to have a completely new one, which made me very excited. Here are some Christmas outfit inspirations:

 

Shopping for a modest Christmas outfit is usually hard, but this year it wasn't. I found a long, black, lacey skirt and a white scarf at a Maurice's sale, a red sweater at Target, and I already had a nice coat at home. The outfit wasn't a problem... but shoes were a rather hard. However, it was probably my fault. You see, I wanted red shoes. Not just red shoes, but red heels. Wherever I went there were red heels, but every time the heels were way too high. Sadly, small heels are rare. Thankfully, I succeeded in finding a pair of cherry red, small heels at payless. Even better, they were 50% off! I really got lucky and I rode home with a feeling of triumph. I must add that although I was happy with my purchases, the real highlight was spending hours of one-on-one time with my mom. She's so sweet and knows me well enough to recognize when I need to eat, (which is usually when I start stressing out ridiculously).

Before I end this post there is a little apology I must make. Because of all the company we've had and all the preparations for company that we've been doing I have neglected posting on this blog and I'm sorry. I should have posted sooner, but this being the busiest time of year... well, I hope it's understandable why it's taken so long.

May God bless you on this holy Christmas day!

~Mariana