Thursday, January 05, 2006

Altogether lovely

The second deadly sin of our culture is body worship. A new "spa" opens every day in Nashville promising health, beauty and skin clear of wrinkles. Men and women pay thousands of dollars for eye lifts, nose straightening, chin augmentation, and various other fixes. These are not bad things in themselves. I had eye lifts myself when my eyesight was diminished. I recently saw a woman on TV who had suffered through 13 operations in one year hoping to regain her lost youth--that's excessive!

Young girls and older ones too fall into eating disorders trying to get as skinny as the newest teen model. Boys take sterioids to pass, punt and kick farther. And on and on it goes.

If we wish to be altogether lovely (S of S 5:16), then we would best emulate Christ in our inner being, and stop trying to turn back time.

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