I love clothes. I love fashion. I love boutiques. I love Pinterest, hobby lobby, and Marshall’s Home Goods.

What woman doesn’t want beauty around her, her home beautiful for guests—what woman doesn’t want to be beautiful in her appearance? We are made this way.

I’ve spent a lot of time, money and thoughts on beautifying my external appearance, and my home.

But when is enough, enough?

Well, for each person that’s going to not only look different, but it will also look differently during different seasons of life as we walk through it. God created you, you, and He created me, me. Hear from God about what’s for you right now in your season.

Beauty as I’ve known it in the past, right now it distracts me from my yes to God. Does that mean it doesn’t matter to Him? No. It means that I allow Him to redefine what beauty is for me right now, in this season.

Beauty for me right now is looking in the mirror and seeing the mama looking back— the 36 year old, the one that may be getting some wrinkles and a few shiny gray hairs erupting.

Beauty for me right now is looking at my hair color growing off, my roots growing longer, and no longer seeing the natural color as hideous, but intended.

Beauty for me right now is looking in my closet at all the blessings of beautiful clothes God’s given me over the years from beautiful stores, altar’d state, Loft, Jane…

Beauty for me right now is seeing my Pinterest-y home on pause, with a big baby play yard in the middle of my living room floor. Toys scattered about, fingerprints on the stainless steel…

Beauty for me right now is seeing that my season right now is not one for the new beautiful things that flow into our lives during certain times, but for the already existing beautiful things that have been surrounding me that I haven’t noticed enough.

It will not always be this way for me, I’m sure, because of seasons and times that we learn about in Ecclesiastes…

And I still see and notice the beautiful, I love the beautiful, I appreciate the beautiful.

If you’re in a season of beautiful things of life, thank God for them. I believe He wants you, us, to have them and enjoy them, and shine beautiful.

If you’re in another season maybe like me, don’t let the beautiful things be more beautiful than the God dreams He’s birthed inside you.

Don’t let it distract you from your season.

Will I ever cover my roots again? Likely. Will I ever want to shop hobby lobby or Home Goods regularly again, definitely. These things are a part of what I enjoy, and God created that too.

Let God define beauty for you in this season, and kick out anything that distracts you from that definition.

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“Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.” Proverbs 31:30