The Audacious Molly Bruno by Marie Armenia

Author:Marie Armenia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2018-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

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Molly’s Life Lesson #48

If you don’t pray for your family, who will? Pray. Pray. And then pray some more.

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Appearance Matters

“The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

—1 Samuel 16:7

Mom wore the same hairstyle for decades. A cute little layered cut that required her to curl, tease, and spray her hair. It also required a perm every three months because her hair was bone straight. Since she moved to Tennessee fourteen years earlier, I had become her hairdresser. I cut her hair, styled it, and gave her those perms. I put the perm rods in her hair while my father watched in amusement. Every time I did, she’d say to him, “I’m doing this to look pretty for you, honey. I’m doing this for you.” And he usually said something like, “You always look beautiful to me.”

Even at ninety-two years of age, my mother knew something that many women seem to forget: a man notices the way a woman looks. It’s the way he is wired. God sees a woman’s heart. Her husband, however, can see only her outward appearance. And a wife’s outward appearance matters to her husband. Oh, yes it does.

I heard Mom tell young wives many, many times, “Your husband cares about your appearance more than he might be brave enough to tell you.” And more than a few times, these same women came back to my mom in shock when they discussed it with their husbands and discovered that Mom was right.

Your husband does notice how you look. He does care about your appearance. He may not mention it to you because, well, because he wants to have peace on earth. But he notices how you look. Oh, yes he does.

Ouch. Yes, I know. That hurts. That kind of wisdom sounds foolish to women living in the twenty-first century. It seems like archaic advice. And that’s what many women would tell my mom. But she wouldn’t back down, even in the face of women being outraged at her saying, “Don’t neglect your appearance.” She wasn’t saying that wives should look like a supermodel or women shouldn’t accept the changes to their bodies that having children brings. She just meant that women should care about their appearance the way they first cared. “What about him?” women would protest. “My husband doesn’t care about the way he looks!” She’d say, “You worry about you.”

Sometimes women would become upset and confess to her, “What’s the use? I’ve let myself go.”

Mom would say, “Start with how you are today. Look the best you can look today even if you don’t come close to how you looked years ago. I’m not saying look better than you can. Look the best you can. And let your husband know that you care about the way you look to him. That might help him begin to care about the way he looks to you. You never know.

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