I'm not here to judge. or call anyone out. No, I'm here to write what's been on my heart and what's been breaking my heart.
If you know me, you know I have recently been getting involved with our youth girls at church. A big passion of mine, to teach young girls about Jesus, and also be a person they can come to, at any circumstance, and have someone be there to listen. To be someone I wished I had when I was going through a hard time. I don't spend that much time with these girls but I love them. I love them like they are my sisters, well technically they are, but you know what I mean. I pray for them, I watch out for them, I just love them. I see myself in their teenage tendencies. I am still a teenager but you obviously grow A LOT from 13 to 19.
this day and age, us as girls, are being shoved into this world of wants. and by that I mean how this world wants us to be. miley cyrus? um, no thank you. but the sad part about that is I see girls all the time saying that miley is their role model or their "BAE" whatever that means. I will try really hard to not rant about miley. but my point here is, girls don't have the wants and desires to be a well-respected woman. point-blank period.
I am surprised (well not that surprised) at the things I see on social media. social media, ya know the place where you post a picture and can never delete it even if you really delete it. well, here's what I think, save your sexiness for your husband one day! and that is all I have to say about that.
I see so many girls, trying so hard to please anyone, with how they will act. I see them lower their standards for one night. I see them forget all the morals they had because of one drink. I see them being peer pressured into something they normally wouldn't think to do because of pushy "friends" telling them it's okay. I see them chasing guys day after day. I see them dressing like they don't care about their body. I see them becoming someone else, that they never intended to be. I see them, at the end of it all, being the girl no one has respect for anymore. and deep down inside them, that hurts. it hurts because they didn't think one night would be a game changer. it hurts because they thought this guy loved them so much. it hurts because they thought if they ever got this low, that their friends would help them along the way, instead of bring them down. it hurts. nobody wants to be known as the girl who doesn't care, and just living it up. (yolo) every girl wants to be loved, respected, successful, a role model to someone, unique and beautiful in their own way (which we all are, sisters!)
I don't want to see girls start their teenage years off this way because it's the "only way to live." There is so much more to life than trying to please the crowd.
I want to see these girls loving Jesus with all their heart, being a good friend, respecting themselves, doing what they love, fulfilling their dreams, growing, learning, and teaching.
you are beautiful. in your own little way. beyond the looks, it goes deep into your soul. radiate such a beauty to someone each day. I seriously cannot get over how amazing it is, that God, created each of us with a different personality from the next person, and He gives us all a gift we can use to radiate our beauty.
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and if somehow, you feel like what I just listed above, you are reading this, I hope you know that I love you. and so does God. and I am here to talk or to listen. I won't judge you or talk bad about you. I'll listen, and encourage you, and just let you know everything is going to okay, I have been there. It gets better.
oh, and you know the really cool thing about it all? Jesus gives us grace we sure don't deserve even when we act really stubborn! He's there, sister, He's there.
"To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle. She is gracious. She is Godly and she is giving...you and I, if we are women, have the femininity. Very often it is obscured, just as the image of God is obscured in all of us...The more womanly we are, the more manly men will be, and the more God is glorified. As I say to you women, Be women. Be only women. Be real women in obedience to God." - Elisabeth Elliot
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