The reality is we do have a lot of beautiful things on this earth. God made it, right, that

declare his glory, the heavens declare the glory of God. The skies proclaim his handiwork. And we know that

each of us is made in God's image and he knit us together in our mother's wounds and we are made

for him to bring him glory. And I think as parents, it causes me to ask,

am I steeping my mind and heart in God's perspective, in his truth?

Because if I'm not first sitting under the Word of God,

how can I possibly teach my children?

So it just causes me to be really humbled as a parent and to say,

Lord, help me to abide with Jesus and to sit

under his word, Lord willing to be changed by his word to be increasingly made more beautiful

where it really matters. And then help me to live as an example.

Kristen Weatherall is a wife, a mother, a writer, and a speaker.

She and her husband live in Chicagoland with their three kids, and she's the author of a number of books, including a new 20-day devotional for girls called What Makes You Beautiful from Crossway.

Kristen, thanks so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.

It's great to be back. Thanks for having me.

So I was really excited to talk with you about this topic today, the kind of broad topic of helping our daughters in particular to view themselves the way that God views them and to find their self-worth in him and not in the many worldly standards of beauty that are all around us.

It's just such an important topic in our culture today. And I think it's especially important

for us as dads, for guys like myself with daughters, to understand and I think carefully and wisely

about how to help lead our daughters in this way as well. So I'm really excited

for all the girl dads listening today as well to hopefully find this a helpful conversation.

Yeah, me too. So maybe to kick us off, I really love the title for the book, What Makes You Beautiful?

And I think it can kind of be read in two different ways. It could be read as a question or maybe as a statement. And I wonder if you have any thoughts on what was behind that.

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