Zephaniah 3:17 ASV and 1 Peter 3:3-4 ASV

Pages 132-135

The only things standing in the way of our beauty are our doubts and fears, and the hiding and striving we fall to as a result...

beauty flows from a heart at rest...

So the choice a woman makes is not to conjure beauty, but to let her defenses down. To choose to set aside her normal means of survival and just let her heart show up. Beauty comes with it...

Peter doesn't mean that beautiful women rarely speak above a whisper, if they speak at all. No. To have a gentle and quiet spirit is to have a heart of faith, a heart that trusts God, a spirit that has been quieted by his love and filled with his peace...

A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he finds her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough...

"He will quiet you with his love" (Zeph 3:17). A woman of true beauty is a woman who in the depths of her soul is at rest, trusting God because she has come to know him to be worthy of her trust. She exudes a sense of calm, a sense of rest, and invites those around her to rest as well. She...knows that because of God all is well, that all will be well. A woman of true beauty offers others the grace to be and the room to become...We can also breathe in the truth that God loves us and he is good.