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When I said in the time travel thread I'd tell people not to go to war, I was told by someone that that would be the worst thing one could tell a civilization.
I wonder why people are so eager to destroy each other.... We didnt even get past the first family in history before there was a murder.... and I wonder why God puts up with us.
I wonder why people are so eager to destroy each other.... We didnt even get past the first family in history before there was a murder.... and I wonder why God puts up with us.
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@ lil_christian....my dear sister,I can rarely think of a time where yer' postings have been boring.
Personally,I always look forward to whatever it is you post...pretty sure many of the thing's you've shared over the time I've been in CC have been pretty inspiring and stinkin' funny too.
Even in yer' sadness & struggles you pretty much always show yourself to be a Godly woman,and still clinging to the truths you know are His promises. You kinda rock.
Then again,what do I know,right? lol
Personally,I always look forward to whatever it is you post...pretty sure many of the thing's you've shared over the time I've been in CC have been pretty inspiring and stinkin' funny too.
Even in yer' sadness & struggles you pretty much always show yourself to be a Godly woman,and still clinging to the truths you know are His promises. You kinda rock.
Then again,what do I know,right? lol
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You are right lil_christian, the media dictates on us how we should look and act. It's so shallow, focuses on looks and appearance n' forgetting about hearts n' morals.
I like your self confidence that is without arrogance too. Good job lil_christian. God created you the way you are, if you have a problem with it and you think you wanna do something, fine, do it. If not, then you better have that self confidence. By the way, I'm not assuming you're a bad looking girl at all!! I'm talking in general.
I like your self confidence that is without arrogance too. Good job lil_christian. God created you the way you are, if you have a problem with it and you think you wanna do something, fine, do it. If not, then you better have that self confidence.
By the way, I'm not assuming you're a bad looking girl at all!! I'm talking in general.
This is half in reply to you, and another half is just my own thoughts and ramblings.
I feel like there's a catch 22 in how to prevent stuff like low self-esteem from happening. It's good to establish that we're made in the image of Christ and are more than our looks. When we emphasize it too much though, and too early on, especially with girls, they might start to wonder if something's wrong with them. Or maybe it was just me. So when it's too early, they might start asking too many questions, mainly about themselves. Start too late and they might not listen.
When I was in middle school, early on, I never really had thought much about my looks. I just did school, and after school I'd play outside or play a game. It was very rare that I thought that there was something "wrong" with my looks. In 6th or 7th grade I went to a young girls' conference about self-esteem and all that. I think it was the same time I also read a book with the youth group girls on self-esteem and guys.
I started thinking to myself, "Now I don't need all this stuff. I don't have any issues with my self-esteem. I'm fine just the way I am." then I'd start to think, "Or am I?" and it all goes downhill from there. Since then it's always been a battle between the heart, mind, and God. I'm the weird one out of the bunch though. In spite of the fact I've always struggled with self-esteem I never really tried to fix it with stuff like makeup. I only ever wear makeup 3-5 out of the 365 days of the year. Even then and even now I realized makeup is just a cover-up and I don't need it.
I mean, it's not that I didn't learn anything from the book or the conference. I learned a little bit. It inform me that the media will try to lie about who/what we're supposed to look like.
I just think that maybe we're trying too early on in life, before we really truly need it. It's good to be prepared in certain areas of our life. But maybe with stuff like this, it should be more, "We'll get there when we get there." and not teach it so soon?
Unfortunately, I can't speak for every girl out there. Some girls need conferences and books right away when start middle school because they're already starting to struggle with looks. It's so hard to distinguish when the right time is to discuss this and encourage girls.
Okay, 'nuff rambling for me. Hopefully I didn't bore you guys too much. If I did you probably just skipped over this anyways and aren't even reading this.
I feel like there's a catch 22 in how to prevent stuff like low self-esteem from happening. It's good to establish that we're made in the image of Christ and are more than our looks. When we emphasize it too much though, and too early on, especially with girls, they might start to wonder if something's wrong with them. Or maybe it was just me. So when it's too early, they might start asking too many questions, mainly about themselves. Start too late and they might not listen.
When I was in middle school, early on, I never really had thought much about my looks. I just did school, and after school I'd play outside or play a game. It was very rare that I thought that there was something "wrong" with my looks. In 6th or 7th grade I went to a young girls' conference about self-esteem and all that. I think it was the same time I also read a book with the youth group girls on self-esteem and guys.
I started thinking to myself, "Now I don't need all this stuff. I don't have any issues with my self-esteem. I'm fine just the way I am." then I'd start to think, "Or am I?
" and it all goes downhill from there. Since then it's always been a battle between the heart, mind, and God. I'm the weird one out of the bunch though. In spite of the fact I've always struggled with self-esteem I never really tried to fix it with stuff like makeup. I only ever wear makeup 3-5 out of the 365 days of the year. Even then and even now I realized makeup is just a cover-up and I don't need it. I mean, it's not that I didn't learn anything from the book or the conference. I learned a little bit. It inform me that the media will try to lie about who/what we're supposed to look like.
I just think that maybe we're trying too early on in life, before we really truly need it. It's good to be prepared in certain areas of our life. But maybe with stuff like this, it should be more, "We'll get there when we get there." and not teach it so soon?
Unfortunately, I can't speak for every girl out there. Some girls need conferences and books right away when start middle school because they're already starting to struggle with looks.
It's so hard to distinguish when the right time is to discuss this and encourage girls. Okay, 'nuff rambling for me.
Hopefully I didn't bore you guys too much. If I did you probably just skipped over this anyways and aren't even reading this.
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I always procrastinate on doing things that need to be done before my life can move forward...
Yet, when I finally get around to doing them, I feel so light and free.
Is that because I've accomplished something good, or because I'm no longer stressed about procrastinating about it?
...I guess a good way to find out would be to stop procrastinating so I could tell the difference
Yet, when I finally get around to doing them, I feel so light and free.
Is that because I've accomplished something good, or because I'm no longer stressed about procrastinating about it?
...I guess a good way to find out would be to stop procrastinating so I could tell the difference
amen sister.
i think that's great jen--i admire that.
i have a girls group at the jr. high i volunteer/work with. i purposely avoid a lot of subjects, but they're so inundated, they continue to ask. i am constantly derailing topics about dieting, looks and makeup. i usually just wear chapstick and mascara, otherwise they want to ask about my makeup.
oh, and at that age, they have no shame. i've blushed more with that group over the last couple years than i have in my entire life.
jen, (and the rest of you moms of girls), you must have quite an adventure with olivia...
i think that's great jen--i admire that.
i have a girls group at the jr. high i volunteer/work with. i purposely avoid a lot of subjects, but they're so inundated, they continue to ask. i am constantly derailing topics about dieting, looks and makeup. i usually just wear chapstick and mascara, otherwise they want to ask about my makeup.
oh, and at that age, they have no shame. i've blushed more with that group over the last couple years than i have in my entire life.
jen, (and the rest of you moms of girls), you must have quite an adventure with olivia...
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I always procrastinate on doing things that need to be done before my life can move forward...
Yet, when I finally get around to doing them, I feel so light and free.
Is that because I've accomplished something good, or because I'm no longer stressed about procrastinating about it?
...I guess a good way to find out would be to stop procrastinating so I could tell the difference
Yet, when I finally get around to doing them, I feel so light and free.
Is that because I've accomplished something good, or because I'm no longer stressed about procrastinating about it?
...I guess a good way to find out would be to stop procrastinating so I could tell the difference
I always procrastinate on doing things that need to be done before my life can move forward...
Yet, when I finally get around to doing them, I feel so light and free.
Is that because I've accomplished something good, or because I'm no longer stressed about procrastinating about it?
...I guess a good way to find out would be to stop procrastinating so I could tell the difference
Yet, when I finally get around to doing them, I feel so light and free.
Is that because I've accomplished something good, or because I'm no longer stressed about procrastinating about it?
...I guess a good way to find out would be to stop procrastinating so I could tell the difference
there are a few "sayings" that my dad has constantly repeated in my ear. one of them is "start your day off by doing the hard (or unpleasant) stuff first."
it's still hard for me to do that. : ) but it succeeds in making me feel guilty when i don't....
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Exodus 4: 10-12 says Then Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”11 So the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? 12 Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.”