Beauty Beheld: A Retelling of Hansel and Gretel (The Classical Kingdoms Collection Book 3)

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It's a reflection of how I see myself as a beauty commenter, in a way—an outsider with the tools to participate, but not the sleek wrapping. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. It took me two weeks to walk without pain, like the little mermaid in Hans Christian Andersen's original tale.

And I personally know that he’ll never forgive you for costing him the best thing that’s ever happened to him, I hissed through gritted teeth. One of the creatives at the agency says to him in anger after Don suggests he might want to work on some character-building, "You don't have any character, you're just handsome—stop kidding yourself. It was too much power, I suppose, though I wouldn’t have used that word then, as power wasn’t high on my priorities in the second grade.Despite how hard I’d tried to give him the best of me, yet another one of my relationships had gone bad.

Did I want to live in a world where strangers couldn’t interact with one another without my creepometer going off?And in turn, both of these characters have learned to trust that that's how their highly sensitive attention-radars will be seen.

I bore the agony of my knowledge nobly, channeling my dignity into my solemn reading of Luke 2: 1-20. After she reclaimed her seat, Lovelie asked Emmanuel, Honey, lead us in prayer before the food cools?I wanted to look my best, but still wanted to look like me; emphasizing my eyes without wearing more dramatic makeup than I’d normally wear seemed like a good way to do that. You can read the whole thing here, along with a right honorable debunking of the idea that Audrey Hepburn penned it. Makeup was my passion, primarily because I was trying to look more like the cover girls I saw in the magazines. For a moment, all we heard was high-pitched shrieking as Lovelie reached out and hugged someone on the front porch, cloaked in the early evening shadows. I scanned the table and noticed an extra place setting; then, I double-checked that we were all seated.

There’s another factor that I now see loomed large in my rejection of any physical activity I wasn’t pretty much forced to do: I was desperately afraid of looking stupid. and myself, one I’d invented as a misguided way of navigating the beauty messages I was aware enough to pick up on but immature enough to handle poorly. Beheld also hosts educational opportunities and brings gatherings home in our curated event space, Sanctuary. If there were an appropriately aged infant in the congregation, there might even be a live baby Jesus that year.This book is intended to equip believers to discern the subtle lies about identity and beauty that permeate our current cultural climate and replace them with biblical truths about who we are and who we were made to be.