Lenten Virtue Challenge

This Lent the women of FUS Women’s Ministry (the women who write this blog) are doing a few things for a Lenten Challenge: the skirt challenge, the mirror challenge, and the true beauty challenge. Each of these will be discussed to you so you can know the details and participate along with us in the journey to deeper femininity and holiness this Lent.

Today the one I want to talk to you about is the True Beauty Challenge. The True Beauty Challenge is a book by Hollie Danis who is a Franciscan Uinversity graduate. It is a forty day spiritual journey from beauty misconception to truth and virtue. Each day the book offers readers/participators: a quote or Bible verse, a reflection, a prayer, and a challenge.  

How to participate… join in on the fun:

1.      Pick two items of makeup that you don’t think you can go without and commit to wearing them, and ONLY them for the forty days of Lent. If you want to go all out and commit to zero products, go for it!

2.      Pack the rest away.

3.      Read this book every day for reflections, prayers, and challenges.

4.      Transform by committing yourself to doing the daily challenges and to practicing virtue!

Note: you can still participate in the True Beauty Challenge even if you choose not to give up makeup.

For example I am not giving up makeup simply because I usually only wear foundation. I wanted to think of something that would really allow me to see myself as beautiful in a new way and would take me out of my comfort zone.

I discovered when doing a mission trip last spring, I do not feel as beautiful with my hair up as I do having it down. The only time I usually wear my hair up is when I go to work-out and when it is down it is like my “crown jewel.” This will be a unique challenge for me and I am excited to see where the Lord leads me this Lent and to share it with you!!  

  I and two of the core team women will be doing the True Beauty Challenge alongside other women of campus. The other women are giving up types of makeup, so the different blogs we post throughout Lent should keep things interesting.  

I know it can be scary doing a challenge all alone, so I want to encourage you to comment here and on the blogs of the True Beauty Challenge about how you are doing with the challenge too. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!! The True Beauty Challenge has a Facebook page you can join and a website: http://royalbeautyprincess.blogspot.com/

Since we cannot post what to do each day on here, the best thing to do would be to buy the book at: http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=6026&ID=61902721-dd82-483c-8bb2-ffc886995854

This way you can have it to take into prayer with you and to really focus in on the way the Lord wants to love you each day.

The mystery within the book:

                       -starts with an intro of what is the true beauty challenge, how to participate in it,                      and the history
                       - 5 parts:

1. Fasting/Beauty (days 1-4)

             2. Beauty Misconceptions (days 5-10)

             3. Truth (days 11-20)

            4. Virtue (days 21-37)

             5. The Easter Tridumm (days 38-40)  

                        - Conclusion of the new life after the challenge

United by the Cross,

       Chloe