Most Beautiful Hands
StoryIllustration★★★★A loving mother once saved her little girl from a burning house, but suffered severe burns on her hands and arms. When the girl grew up, not knowing how her mother’s arms became so seared, she was shamed of the scarred, gnarled hands and always insisted that her mother wear long gloves to cover up that ugliness.
But one day the daughter asked her mother how her hands because so scarred. For the first time the mother told her the story of how she had saved her life with those hands. The daughter wept tears of gratitude and said, “Oh Mother, those are beautiful hands, the most beautiful in the world. Don’t ever hide them again.”
The point
A mother's scarred hands, burned saving her daughter from fire, transform in the daughter's eyes from shameful to beautiful once the sacrifice is understood. Scars of love and sacrifice are the most beautiful of all.