Styling Theme Options Elements

Hello. I have added theme options to my custom theme, so that the site owner can customize certain blocks of text. Both options are in the form of textareas. I would like the text to display with first line indention on paragraphs, but it does not. I have styled the font, etc. of the text, but when I apply text-indent: 40px to the element, only the first line of the text is indented. From this, I gather that it is treating the input as one block of text, as opposed to multiple return lines. Here is the page, that I mean: http://www.jeffpoetry.com/?page_id=61. Just let me know which lines of code that you need. Any help would be greatly appreciated.