Just as we are attracted to beauty, we are also affected by our perceptions of beauty. Magazines, advertising, the different environments you may find yourself in through the week — it doesn’t matter where you go, issues of ‘beauty’ and ‘image’ follow. It colors how you perceive and react to others, and it deeply affects how you identify yourself. Our approach is key in defining beauty. To feel beautiful is to to feel attractive based on attributes that we possess as individuals. Understanding beauty is to not shrink back from life, but to thankfully recognize and embrace the gifts one has been given and use them to empower and better others. Fathers have the opportunity to reflect a healthy perception of beauty into the lives of their sons and daughters. As you walk through this study, allow yourself the time to reflect on how your own father invested (or didn’t invest) in a meaningful definition of beauty within your own life. But remember, dad’s are human too, and many people have not experienced this sort of meaningful relationship . As a result, our perception of beauty, and how we are made beautiful, has the potential to become skewed.

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