Enriching the Soil of Your Life
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By: Kristen Clark
It was Christmas morning when 6 year old Kelly was exposed to our raunch culture for the first time. She excitedly opened one of her presents and pulled out a small doll.
It wasn’t the type of doll you might imagine a little girl playing with though. No, this was a new kind of doll. This was a doll invented as a result of people in America embracing the most recent feminist ideas.
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After posing half-naked in a recent photo shoot, Emma Watson (the star in the upcoming Beauty and the Beast movie) couldn’t understand why people were calling her a hypocrite.
As an outspoken self-proclaimed feminist, some people viewed Emma’s photoshoot as quite the contradiction. They were wondering how a woman could stand for “women’s equality and female respect,” while at the same time taking part in the sexual objectification of women.
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[Christian girls today need courage to stand for true beauty and not slip into some worldly, counterfeit version of it. I share this post by Kristen Clark at Girl Defined (with her permission) to embolden and inspire young women (and women of all ages) to do just that.]
Several months ago I wrote a controversial blog post that went viral and picked up a lot of positive and negative attention. It currently has over 730 comments and has reached over a million people. It’s called “Why Christian Girls Post Seductive Selfies.” If you’re interested, you can read it here.
My main point was to bring up the question of why so many Christian girls post provocative, sensual and seductive selfies online. I challenged Christian girls to reevaluate their online images and ask themselves if what they’re posting is honoring to God.
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My mother raised me to be a lady by modeling lady-likeness herself. Most of it was communicated without words by watching her kindness and courtesy to others. There was also the ebb and flow of mother/daughter conversation on how to do things beautifully (even on a shoestring budget) and with an eye to excellence.
Mom started young teaching me how to eat, talk, walk, dress, and respond to adults with respect and poise. I needed to work on my posture and to say thank you and please. Later I learned phone and table manners, how to set the table properly for any occasion, how to introduce someone and make them feel included. My sister and I also got routine lessons on personal grooming, hygiene and nutrition.
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Quite a provocative question this: What does it mean to be ladylike?
As you stepped into your clothes this morning, did you embrace the love of God who longs for you to be appreciated for who you are – not just what you look like?
At home or away, a ladylike daughter of the King represents not only herself but, even more so, the Lord. I believe it is important we embrace this inescapable outward aspect of our lives and craft our wardrobes to honor God. After all, He made woman the crowning touch of all creation. God places a high value on what we do with our bodies since we are His temple (1 Cor. 6:19).
Whether pint-sized, average, or plus-sized, when we choose ladylike beauty over the sensual, we are choosing the Lord’s ways over the world’s ways. It is living by design, not by default.
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I am delighted to introduce Rebecca Hickman, dressmaker extraordinaire for little ladies:
Modiste Originals began in 2010 when I decided I wanted to make traditional little girl’s clothing – pinafores, bloomers – clothing that let little girls look like and be little girls. The lack of sweet, innocent, and feminine clothing for little girls is something that greets me every time I go shopping, and I wanted to do what I could to change that. Hence, Modiste Originals was born.
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