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Beautiful in God's Eyes for Young Women: Looking Good from the Inside Out
Have you ever struggled with your body image or in a moment of depression asked, “Why am I ugly?” Bestselling author Elizabeth George wants you to experience the confidence of knowing that you are beautiful in God’s eyes. Many young women struggle with eating disorders or distorted body images because they believe the world’s version of ultimate beauty, perfection, or femininity. They are deciding, based on those lies, that they are too ugly, too fat, too different―too unloveable. It’s time to give your body image a makeover by using God’s truth as your mirror. Surround yourself with inspiring Bible verses and Elizabeth’s encouraging guidance to discover purpose and confidence you’ve only dreamed of having. If you want to see something really beautiful―take a look at the incredible young woman God made you to be.
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240 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2014
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About the author
Elizabeth George
333 books811 followersElizabeth George is bestselling author and national speaker dedicated to helping people live a life after God’s own heart. For over 30 years, the teachings and steadfast example of Elizabeth has helped countless men and women:
- Simplify life by focusing on God’s priorities.
- Appreciate God’s Word and apply it to everyday situations.
- Respond to circumstances with confidence by seeing yourself through God’s loving eyes.
- Increase closeness in marriage by serving and honoring each other.
- Powerfully shape the hearts of children and teenagers.
- Enjoy greater intimacy with God.
Women around the world are drawn to Elizabeth’s approach of daily starting with the Bible to handle life’s challenges. Her ability to weave biblical truth into everyday issues has led readers to make over 15 of her books bestsellers. Elizabeth’s distinctive work, A Woman After God’s Own Heart, has sold over 1 million copies and received the ECPA Platinum Book Award. Likewise, her delightful book, A Girl After God’s Own Heart, remains a treasured gift for moms and grandmothers and made the CBA Bestseller List for fourteen consecutive months.
Elizabeth also encourages women through her radio broadcast, “A Minute for Busy Women,” featured on Christian radio stations across America and at www.OnePlace.com. She is also a regular keynote speaker at women’s conferences and retreats.
In the midst of their busy writing schedule, Elizabeth and Jim love spending time with their two married daughters and eight grandchildren, taking daily walks along golden sands, and enjoying the beautiful Hawaiian sunsets. They divide time residing in Honolulu, Hawaii and the Washington State coast.
- Simplify life by focusing on God’s priorities.
- Appreciate God’s Word and apply it to everyday situations.
- Respond to circumstances with confidence by seeing yourself through God’s loving eyes.
- Increase closeness in marriage by serving and honoring each other.
- Powerfully shape the hearts of children and teenagers.
- Enjoy greater intimacy with God.
Women around the world are drawn to Elizabeth’s approach of daily starting with the Bible to handle life’s challenges. Her ability to weave biblical truth into everyday issues has led readers to make over 15 of her books bestsellers. Elizabeth’s distinctive work, A Woman After God’s Own Heart, has sold over 1 million copies and received the ECPA Platinum Book Award. Likewise, her delightful book, A Girl After God’s Own Heart, remains a treasured gift for moms and grandmothers and made the CBA Bestseller List for fourteen consecutive months.
Elizabeth also encourages women through her radio broadcast, “A Minute for Busy Women,” featured on Christian radio stations across America and at www.OnePlace.com. She is also a regular keynote speaker at women’s conferences and retreats.
In the midst of their busy writing schedule, Elizabeth and Jim love spending time with their two married daughters and eight grandchildren, taking daily walks along golden sands, and enjoying the beautiful Hawaiian sunsets. They divide time residing in Honolulu, Hawaii and the Washington State coast.
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March 14, 2017
LOVED it. Great devotional book. Elizabeth George breaks down Proverbs 31:10-31 and takes a look at what it means to be a young woman made in God's image.
November 26, 2013
Beautiful In God's Eyes For Young Women
Elizabeth George
(C)2014
This book is a great encouragement for young girls. It reminds them that they can let the lives of those around them light up when thy let Christ shine through them. The book also reminds young woman/girls that skills like homemaking are important because one day they may have a house or family of their own. The practical tips as well as Biblical principles will provide young women with important tools as they grow up and start to build a life of their on.
The study question at the end of each chapter would provide a great tool for a Mother and daughter to open up a discussion on what it means to be a young Christian woman...
Elizabeth George reminds girls that physical beauty is fleeting and inner beauty is so much more important, and even gives tips on how a young Christian woman should dress and act...
Elizabeth George
(C)2014
This book is a great encouragement for young girls. It reminds them that they can let the lives of those around them light up when thy let Christ shine through them. The book also reminds young woman/girls that skills like homemaking are important because one day they may have a house or family of their own. The practical tips as well as Biblical principles will provide young women with important tools as they grow up and start to build a life of their on.
The study question at the end of each chapter would provide a great tool for a Mother and daughter to open up a discussion on what it means to be a young Christian woman...
Elizabeth George reminds girls that physical beauty is fleeting and inner beauty is so much more important, and even gives tips on how a young Christian woman should dress and act...
June 3, 2014
I have thoroughly enjoyed Elizabeth George's previous books. As a mom to a teen girl, I was thrilled to see this book being released. This book about the Proverbs 31 woman is written with young women in mind. It's an encouragement in living in a way that honors and pleases the Lord. It's a guide to being a successful woman in all aspects of life. I like how it focused on the importance of being beautiful on the inside and letting that beauty move towards the outside. The discussion questions are great for personal study, small group, or my favorite - mother and daughter time.
November 15, 2018
Another Elizabeth George book for a birthday gift and another great read from this inspiring author, great themes and discussion points about real beauty and what that means, well worth reading for all teen girls.
September 7, 2021
This was a really great and encouraging book, a wonderful goal to work toward in a teen girls life, I really suggest this book!!
March 24, 2023
I liked that this book was interactive and used Bible scripture. There were some very good principles in it. Honestly I would given it a 3.5 stars. However there were some things that made me not give it the full 5 stars. On page 16, she talks of a soon-to-married young lady who did swim meets for twenty years because of her mom encouraging her athletic efforts. The author said the girl could not cook, clean or do laundry and therefore was not ready to be married. Here's my issue. I have been a stay at home for twenty and I even homeschooled my daughters from elementary through high school. Having your girls involved in dance or athletics, a music instrument, etc. may take away from some of the chores at home sometimes. However the discipline that they learn from sticking to something and working hard is part of character development that can lead to a good Proverbs 31 wife. If this same young women who put such effort/work (and obeyed her mother's wishes-that's respect for her parents) into swimming and her swim meets, once she switches gears and learns how to do laundry (that would just a day with modern machinery), cooking, and cleaning-she will most definitely succeed at it. When you get married, you just start cooking for two, and then three, and eventually four as each new child comes along. You learn slowly but surely. I didn't know how to cook when I got married (I was too busy working two jobs which taught me a lot of discipline, how to get along with others, and service) and when I got married, I started cooking and thrived at it. My mother in law taught me how to sew and made dozens of blankets with her. I did some oopsies in cooking, but I soon learned. By the first year I was making roast lamb and other goodies. I got a reputation as a good cook. I cooked almost every day for twenty years as my children grew up. I have learned from having two girls that they have different interests and talents. One prefers sewing over the other. One prefers cooking. While I taught them both to do homemaking basics, they can each thrive especially in some areas and excel in a preferred skill. That's ok, too. God gives us each gifts.
I also think there should be a chapter about how we do not always reach the ideal Proverbs 31 woman. As much as I tried, I was never her every day. I fell short even though I tried to give my family 100%. There can be words of wisdom and encouragement for the days we know we do not reach the ideal. I think that would be really helpful for young women, too, knowing the teen years and early 20s can be challenging in finding out who you are and where you fit in.
I think the book also speaks just of women at home or at college and going to high school, but it doesn't consider the situations where some young women go to work and go to college at the same time. My oldest paid for her own college as she took classes while working and graduated with her BA at age 21. She did not cook during that time (too busy), and I did her laundry but she had a goal. And she reached it. She was very disciplined and worked hard. There is not one set path to develop the Proverbs 21 character (though once married I do agree, it is best for the woman to be the one who stays at home and raises the kids). But sometimes women work outside the home before marriage. My oldest actually has a large nest egg of money for her future to help the family once she does get married.
In my case, I did restaurant serving which helped me in knowing how to set a lovely table and serve my family in latter years. There is value in other areas (and things we can learn on the job, I would think someone with nursing experience would have that skill for benefitting her family in the future) that we can apply to becoming Proverbs 31 women (as best we can with God's help) in the future! I think that was what I thought was missing in the book.
I also think there should be a chapter about how we do not always reach the ideal Proverbs 31 woman. As much as I tried, I was never her every day. I fell short even though I tried to give my family 100%. There can be words of wisdom and encouragement for the days we know we do not reach the ideal. I think that would be really helpful for young women, too, knowing the teen years and early 20s can be challenging in finding out who you are and where you fit in.
I think the book also speaks just of women at home or at college and going to high school, but it doesn't consider the situations where some young women go to work and go to college at the same time. My oldest paid for her own college as she took classes while working and graduated with her BA at age 21. She did not cook during that time (too busy), and I did her laundry but she had a goal. And she reached it. She was very disciplined and worked hard. There is not one set path to develop the Proverbs 21 character (though once married I do agree, it is best for the woman to be the one who stays at home and raises the kids). But sometimes women work outside the home before marriage. My oldest actually has a large nest egg of money for her future to help the family once she does get married.
In my case, I did restaurant serving which helped me in knowing how to set a lovely table and serve my family in latter years. There is value in other areas (and things we can learn on the job, I would think someone with nursing experience would have that skill for benefitting her family in the future) that we can apply to becoming Proverbs 31 women (as best we can with God's help) in the future! I think that was what I thought was missing in the book.
December 26, 2013
Have you ever wanted to be like the Proverb's 31 woman? I have, mostly because she's a business woman. But no matter what your reasons, Beautiful in God's Eyes for Young Women is centered around helping you become like the Proverbs 31 woman.
The book is divided into twenty chapters, each covering one portion of the Proverb's 31 (or P31 as the book calls her) woman. Each chapter opens up with the author sharing a part of her trip to Israel, goes on into a discussion of that particular trait, and ends with some discussion questions. I think the discussion questions means that this book is suited to be a devotional or as part of a Sunday School class.
Despite the fact that the title says "for Young Women", I feel like it's targeted at preteens to early teens. That's mostly from the style of writing with "soooo" (perhaps I used an 'o' or two too many) and "ooooh" and generally talking like my younger sisters. But the book is supposed to be a sort of confidante, to help you grow into a truly beautiful young woman, so I suppose that for younger girls, this is the most appropriate style.
I had only one small problem with the book. In Chapter 3, "A Spring of Goodness", the author presents a list of ladies that you don't want to follow because they weren't a "spring of goodness for their husbands." Reading through the list, you'll see that Eve (the mother of all human beings) and Rebekah (who's generous heart helped her become Isaac's wife) included in a list with other evil ladies like Jezebel and Solomon's wives. Now, the inclusion of Eve and Rebekah made me uncomfortable. I look up to Eve and Rebekah. I know that they've sinned, but who hasn't? And the way this passage was written, it felt like it was their fault that their husbands sinned (in the case of Adam at least). Perhaps it's just my personality, but I know that if I was younger and read a book like that, I would get really scared and well, the weight of other people's sin is not something that you should ask anyone to bear, boy or girl. I would have appreciated it if the book added a paragraph saying that the husbands did have some responsibility, even if their wives played a role in getting them to sin. I feel that while Satan will always tempt you to sin, in the end, the one that chooses to sin is you yourself. In the same way, we cannot make a blanket statement and say (or make people feel that) if a wife isn't a perfect, pure spring of goodness, her husband will sin and it will be all her fault.
And that was the only part of the book that made me uncomfortable. Apart from that, I found the book to be a good resource for young girls, and it's something that you can consider giving to a young cousin or relative and going through with them, to help them become Godly women.
Disclaimer: I got a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a free and honest review.
Note: I first posted this review at Inside the mind of a Bibliophile
The book is divided into twenty chapters, each covering one portion of the Proverb's 31 (or P31 as the book calls her) woman. Each chapter opens up with the author sharing a part of her trip to Israel, goes on into a discussion of that particular trait, and ends with some discussion questions. I think the discussion questions means that this book is suited to be a devotional or as part of a Sunday School class.
Despite the fact that the title says "for Young Women", I feel like it's targeted at preteens to early teens. That's mostly from the style of writing with "soooo" (perhaps I used an 'o' or two too many) and "ooooh" and generally talking like my younger sisters. But the book is supposed to be a sort of confidante, to help you grow into a truly beautiful young woman, so I suppose that for younger girls, this is the most appropriate style.
I had only one small problem with the book. In Chapter 3, "A Spring of Goodness", the author presents a list of ladies that you don't want to follow because they weren't a "spring of goodness for their husbands." Reading through the list, you'll see that Eve (the mother of all human beings) and Rebekah (who's generous heart helped her become Isaac's wife) included in a list with other evil ladies like Jezebel and Solomon's wives. Now, the inclusion of Eve and Rebekah made me uncomfortable. I look up to Eve and Rebekah. I know that they've sinned, but who hasn't? And the way this passage was written, it felt like it was their fault that their husbands sinned (in the case of Adam at least). Perhaps it's just my personality, but I know that if I was younger and read a book like that, I would get really scared and well, the weight of other people's sin is not something that you should ask anyone to bear, boy or girl. I would have appreciated it if the book added a paragraph saying that the husbands did have some responsibility, even if their wives played a role in getting them to sin. I feel that while Satan will always tempt you to sin, in the end, the one that chooses to sin is you yourself. In the same way, we cannot make a blanket statement and say (or make people feel that) if a wife isn't a perfect, pure spring of goodness, her husband will sin and it will be all her fault.
And that was the only part of the book that made me uncomfortable. Apart from that, I found the book to be a good resource for young girls, and it's something that you can consider giving to a young cousin or relative and going through with them, to help them become Godly women.
Disclaimer: I got a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a free and honest review.
Note: I first posted this review at Inside the mind of a Bibliophile
June 10, 2014
DNF'd at 80%.
Although this book is intended for the teenage crowd, I thought I'd pick it up anyway and see what it had to say. Elizabeth George is very big into the Proverbs 31 woman and that is what this book was all about - pulling apart the verses in Proverbs 31 about the "virtuous woman" and applying them to teens' lives today.
It's very well-written, understandable, and relatable - to an extent. That's why it got 2 stars instead of one. The reason I didn't read it in its entirety is because it was - frankly - extremely depressing. Ms. George does not say anything throughout the book about how it takes a long time to cultivate patience, for example, or how it's difficult - but doable! - to become a hard working young woman.
To be entirely honest, this book depressed me. So much of what Ms. George was recommending for teenage girls to do is beyond even me - and I'm 26. Definitely good things to strive towards, yes!! I am not saying that they aren't - but it felt to me, reading through this, that any young teen who picks it up to read is setting herself up for failure because there are so many - dare I say?? - unreasonable expectations that Ms. George has for teenage girls.
Also - as an aside - I am getting quite frustrated to the extent of which the Proverbs 31 woman is praised in today's Christian culture. She was a Godly woman, yes, but to compare ourselves to her seems like we - as adults!! - are setting ourselves up for failure also. We can be the best selves we can be, but to compare ourselves to her - well, I know that I fall (very) short in terms of comparison and that that makes me feel horrible about myself.
Do not recommend.
Although this book is intended for the teenage crowd, I thought I'd pick it up anyway and see what it had to say. Elizabeth George is very big into the Proverbs 31 woman and that is what this book was all about - pulling apart the verses in Proverbs 31 about the "virtuous woman" and applying them to teens' lives today.
It's very well-written, understandable, and relatable - to an extent. That's why it got 2 stars instead of one. The reason I didn't read it in its entirety is because it was - frankly - extremely depressing. Ms. George does not say anything throughout the book about how it takes a long time to cultivate patience, for example, or how it's difficult - but doable! - to become a hard working young woman.
To be entirely honest, this book depressed me. So much of what Ms. George was recommending for teenage girls to do is beyond even me - and I'm 26. Definitely good things to strive towards, yes!! I am not saying that they aren't - but it felt to me, reading through this, that any young teen who picks it up to read is setting herself up for failure because there are so many - dare I say?? - unreasonable expectations that Ms. George has for teenage girls.
Also - as an aside - I am getting quite frustrated to the extent of which the Proverbs 31 woman is praised in today's Christian culture. She was a Godly woman, yes, but to compare ourselves to her seems like we - as adults!! - are setting ourselves up for failure also. We can be the best selves we can be, but to compare ourselves to her - well, I know that I fall (very) short in terms of comparison and that that makes me feel horrible about myself.
Do not recommend.
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