Comments on: Another Chance At Beautiful https://barefootmel.com/another-chance-at-beautiful/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=another-chance-at-beautiful Living the Adventure, Telling the Stories Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:37:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Mela Kamin https://barefootmel.com/another-chance-at-beautiful/#comment-186 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:18:16 +0000 http://barefootmel.com/?p=1249#comment-186 fantastic truth, Mel – this is wonderful: “He taught me that there is beauty when we choose to rise above pain and make something out of it. But not on our own…in HIS strength.” Thanks for sharing this!

]]> By: Mel https://barefootmel.com/another-chance-at-beautiful/#comment-159 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:48:20 +0000 http://barefootmel.com/?p=1249#comment-159 Thanks for your sweet words. :) Happy Monday to you, too! (((hugs)))

]]> By: Rebekah Grace https://barefootmel.com/another-chance-at-beautiful/#comment-158 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:18:12 +0000 http://barefootmel.com/?p=1249#comment-158 I am here to declare the following:

Mel’s writer’s block…..totally busted!

Nice words! This mamma of 2 grown daughters and a mother myself at age 16, reading of your brokeness and abandonment at that age made my heart cry. ((hugs)) to you!

If I could just show you my 7th grade picture: frizzy, ugly, out of control home perm, some dorky top and a desperate beyond desperate need for braces. It was horrendous! I was straight out of my Christian private, fundamental, legalistic very sheltered school into a public school that we all believed were of the devil. I related to no one. Yet I couldn’t find the devil anywhere. I found him though. I would be in my late 30’s. Sneaky bastard.

I say all of that to say, I understand. I think that more than anything else in my life I need people to understand me so I reach out to understand others in their struggle, their lives, their stories.

Your beauty and your heart come bounding off your blog into my office/den anytime I’m here. So, thank you for that.

And lastly, I was reading a really phenominal article in Christianity Today and this line struck a chord in my soul:

The most important lesson I have learned from my pain is about compassion.

Amen.

Have a truly beautiful Monday girl!

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