My Fair Lady Theology

Oh that Eliza is one smart cookie! No truer words were ever spoken about our species (if you are a woman) than those of the above well-turned phrase.  How we are treated makes a difference.

However, as a woman, I spend too much time looking to the media, the magazine racks by the grocery store checkout aisle, the weight loss infomercials, the movies, my mental images of how I "once" looked and determine my self worth according to the size of my jeans.  The WORLD is not treating me in a derogatory way - directly - however I am letting the WORLD affect how I treat myself!

For the most part, I feel like a lady.  My self image is based on biblical truth.  I know who I am.  However, certain times of the month, conversations, and social situations pull my thinking into the gutter and I dwell on all that is wrong and before I know it ... SHAZAM ... I am a flower girl.

This week I took one of my beautiful girls shopping.  Once the dressing room door closed and garments meant for toothpick girls were tried on and didn't fit ... the flower girl mentality came over her.  I could physically see her buy into the fact that because her beautiful body didn't fill out all the right places she was somehow less than ideal.  I hate that!  Hate, hate, hate!

Girls, ladies, women everywhere!  Unite!  We are not the number our jeans display ... we are created "good"!  Why can't we see that gentleness, strength, inner beauty, kindness, authenticity, truthfulness, compassion, driven, creativity could be the label on our clothes and how we are defined!  I choose to define myself ... beautiful.  I choose to plant seeds and cultivate truth in my beautiful girls that who they are has nothing ... NOTHING ... to do with a number.  They are NOT flower girls ... they ARE ladies!!

On a soap box,
christina
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