Hannah Grace was in a production called "Penguins on Parade"....she is the one in the denim skirt and black boots. She thinks she is something special in those boots....I guess because they make a loud clip-clop noise on the floor. It makes her feel important. What she doesn't realize is that she is special all the time....whether she has on those boots or flip-flops. It's funny because sometimes I don't realize it about myself either. I sometimes get more concerned with how I look going to church than with preparing myself to hear The Word. Every Saturday night and Sunday morning I fight Satan as he is telling me, "You're fat, you're ugly, your clothes are ugly, they're going to laugh at you at church, you wore that skirt 2 weeks ago.........." The list goes on and on.
It's funny that penguins are all dressed the same, so they don't have to worry about how they look....but if they thought like we do, they would compare their chest feathers and some would have low self esteem because their tail is bigger than the others, still others would dye their beaks to just the right shade of orange....see how crazy that sounds? Not that anything is wrong with a little dye but you get my point....hahaha
God made each one of us special and beautiful! How could anything made in HIS image be less than beautiful?
The best compliment I have received in a long long time was one I got last Thursday after Drew and I ate lunch with hubby. We went to a Mexican place with Lee and his co-workers and boy it was yummy, but back to the compliment.....later that night I was on the computer and I caught Lee looking at me and he said, "I meant to tell you earlier, but you looked really pretty today, I was looking at you at lunch.....". He said it slowly and he looked right into my eyes when he said it. I replied with a phrase that is sometimes hard for me to say when receiving a compliment, I simply said, "Thank you". I didn't fish for more and I didn't disagree with him.
I encourage you to make a difference in someone's day.... look at them and give them a simple but honest compliment.
2 comments:
Great post Amy. We talked about some of this in my Sunday school today about preparing to go to worship. We can get so caught up in earthly things and others that we forget the true reason. Instead of worrying more about what we look like or what we wear, what about our unconfessed sins or or conflicts with others in the church. God would much rather have us be sanctified and reconciled in unity with one another as opposed to me looking great.
However, I think we can do both! We had a devotional the other day through our Year Study of Truth at church that talked about our insides being clean. In Matthew 23:
25"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
Pretty convicting, we should focus more on our insides, and when we do that we see our beauty through Him I think which causes us to be more beautiful to outsiders, despite our outside may not change that much.
Hannah Grace is stylin' in those boots and red tights! I can sense her independent spirit through that picture!! I love it :) I pray she can be most dependent on God and less dependent on anything else, that is where her true independence and freedom will come.
so true Julie....the problem comes when we allow ourselves to be consumed, which I have done, to the point of getting very angry when something doesn't fit right or crying over it....even lately....that isn't of God. So most of the stuff in my posts is for me! I learn so much about myself as I write something and then read it!
Yes, Hannah is something....she is truly her Daddy's daughter but very girly...and she has Amanda's toes! I remind her all the time that her toes are "family toes"...hahaha
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