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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

What Is Beauty

How do you define the word beautiful? Most of the girls in the world have been told what beautiful is. For some, beautiful is stretching your earlobes down to your shoulders. For others, it means slicing their faces or backs and then rubbing salt into the cuts so they bubble into designs.

In some parts of Asia, girls smear bleach creams on their faces to make them look whiter.

In Thailand, women stack gold rings around their necks more and more until their shoulders have squished down and their heads are stretched high above their bodies.

A certain African group starts their beauty regime around age 20. First, they make a cut in the lower lip so that the lip can be pulled away from the mouth enough to fit a little round clay piece in the hole. In time, the hole gets stretched, and bigger pieces of clay can be put in. I saw a picture of a girl biting into a piece of toast. But it wasn’t toast. It was a huge clay piece stretching her lower lip out! Without the piece in, her lower lip hangs down to the bottom of her chin. She’s the most beautiful girl in her village.

Unbelievable, isn’t it? You may be thinking, These people are crazy! Who would go through all that junk just to be pretty to the people around you?
ok,so let’s not say they’re crazy until we’ve looked at ourselves first. How many Americans have gotten skin cancer from toasting themselves to a crisp on the beach? How many women have died from plastic surgery?
Paint your face with foundation until it’s all the same, even color. Then paint colors on top of that. If your eyelashes or fingernails aren’t long enough, you can buy fake ones to glue on yourself.
If your figure is too big, you can buy underwear that will squish you in until you can hardly breathe. If you’re too small, you can buy a fake chest built into your bra.
If you’re too pale, you can spray paint yourself to be darker. If you don’t like your hair, you can paint it, too! Change your eye color with contacts. Straighten your teeth by wiring them together.

Fake face.

Fake hair.

Fake body.

Fake smile.

Fake anything you want; that’s how to be beautiful.

It’s pretty easy to see how strange other people’s ideas are but hard to see the ones we read about in magazines all the time.
Am I saying trying to be beautiful in your culture is a sin? No. Am I saying it canbe a sin? Yes.
The world is lying to you about what is beautiful. The world is telling you to not accept yourself as God made you to be. The world says you can’t be beautiful if you’re just you. You can’t be pretty until you look like Barbie, like the girls on TV, like a model.
Well, here’s the truth: Barbie is plastic, the girls on TV are going to get wrinkles and flabby thighs some day and the photos of models are PhotoShopped.
There’s a culture that has a definition of beauty different from any you’ll find around you.It’s God’s culture, and you’ll find it in the Bible.
Let’s look at one of the beautiful women in the Bible: Esther.
The Bible says Esther did have beautiful looks, but I’m thinking she had some competition for the crown. What was it about her that caught the king’s eye?

1. She loved God.
2. She took advice from older people she trusted (Esther 2:20).
3. She wasn’t all about her looks. When all the other girls were going for the flashiest, most attention-getting clothes and jewelry, Esther shocked people by going for a simple, classic look (Esther 2:15).
4. She was smart. She thought about more than just the latest fashions.
5. She cared more about doing what was right than about being attractive and liked—or even being alive! This beautiful girl risked her life to save her people (Esther 4:11-16.)

Esther was a living example of Proverbs 31:30.“Charm is deceptive,(Don’t trust popularity too much.) and beauty is fleeting; (If your worth is in your looks, your worth won’t last.) but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.” (Girls who are sold out for God and following His Word are truly beautiful!)
There’s nothing wrong with making the effort to be beautiful in your culture. (Well, I don’t know about stretching your neck out or faking your chest size.) But don’t believe the world’s lie that that’s who you are.
Be beautiful. But don’t make the “beautiful” of your culture what it’s all about. Be God’s definition of beautiful!

Friday, January 16, 2009

The happenings

Here are some pics of a bunch of different stuff that has been goin on and are a little late but i don't care!!

This is the little boy i have been babysitting!!



Our family Christmas!!

Colin thinkin he rocks!

Laina bein mischievous!

Adam bein cheese and Nicole bein...umm...Nicole?!

Brooke being cute as always!!

And Mom bein the best mom ever!!


Jewelry that I've made!!




well, that's pretty much what I've been up too!