Hi everyone it's Leslie Ludi host at the Set-A-Part-G Podcast, biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Today we're starting a new series on feminine beauty and we're going to specifically be talking

about physical beauty. I know this is an issue that has caused a lot of confusion for so many women today.

And I am definitely no stranger to the frustration and confusion that comes with just trying to navigate the pitfalls

that are in our culture over the issue of our physical appearance and

physical beauty. When I was 14 years old I enrolled in a modeling school with a few of my friends.

And we thought that maybe somehow if we could just sit through these classes, we would understand

how to get rid of all of our awkwardness and look beautiful and know how to talk and walk and be confident and wear the right clothes and I remember the first day this instructor got up in front of the class and she was just this

absolutely gorgeous blonde in her early 20s.

She was a model, she had been on commercials.

And I remember thinking, there is no way I could ever look as beautiful as she does.

And throughout this course, even though I learned a lot of practical things about how to apply makeup and how to choose the right clothes, it actually did not give me the

confidence that I was craving because no matter what I learned about how to become more attractive and more beautiful, there was always

someone in my life that I could compare myself to and feel inferior, whether it would be

a magazine cover or looking at Hollywood movie stars or even

just the popular girls at my school. Even looking at the girls that taught this

modeling course made me feel insecure and no matter how polished and refined my outward

appearance was I never really felt beautiful. In fact for the next two years of my

life I was really just wallowing an insecurity even though I spent

countless hours on my clothing and my appearance and trying to apply all the things that

I learned in that modeling school at the age of 14, it really did nothing to help me overcome

insecurity. And in reality, it wasn't until I encountered Jesus Christ in a life-changing way that I began to realize I'd been looking to a completely

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