GETTING THEM NOT TO NOTICE
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), former president of Harvard University, had a birthmark on his face that bothered him greatly. As a young man, he was told that surgeons could do nothing to remove it. Someone described that moment as “the dark hour of his soul.” Eliot’s mother gave him helpful advice: “My son, it is not possible for you to get rid of that hardship… But it is possible for you, with God’s help, to grow a mind and a soul so big that people will forget to look at your face.” Peter wrote about the beauty of “the hidden person of the heart” (I Peter 3:4). Although he was speaking to women, the attractiveness of inner spiritual traits is equally becoming to men. Christlike character is more desirable than the finest external physical features. From Our Daily Bread, June 15, 1992
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