Lily doesn't care how she looks, how messy or wild her hair becomes, or that her shirt is stained with red pepper juice. I like this about children. They are just busy being themselves. No awareness of what they look like. This morning, still in her bunny jammies, she asked to put on her princess dress to dance. It's a pink, girly dress that I found at Goodwill this summer. It will probably fit her better in a year or two, but she wears it now over her clothes. As I slipped it on over her head she smiled. I told her she was a beautiful princess. She nodded her head saying, "princess" and running her hands over the tulle skirt. I told her that God tells us we can become His children, a daughter of the King, God's princess. She just stared like she was processing. Then she began twirling and dancing. She put on quite a show, loudly saying "cheese" as I snapped a few pictures.
I caught her looking at herself in a mirror this week, smiling and admiring herself. Very cute and innocent. She likes herself. It made me start thinking about all the messages girls and women are given about beauty. What little girl doesn't feel deep down within that she is special, that she wants to be someone's beautiful princess when she grows up? But few seem to really still believe they are anything special by the time they reach adulthood. Could it be we buy into the message that there is only one kind of beauty, only one personality that is the best, that uniqueness is something to bring to conformity with the norm, that fulfillment comes from possessions or a relationship with a man?
God is the King of Kings, the creator of the universe, and the one who knits us together in our mother's wombs. He loves us unconditionally, faithfully, patiently. He loves who we are. He created our unique qualities. He pursues us and saves us from the dragons. He lovingly confronts and forgives. He desires that we display His glory and fulfill His plans. This is beauty, a quiet spirit yielded to God's will, walking in faith, in true relationship with Him. A woman who knows her purpose and delights in who God made her to be.
This is my pray for my little girl. May the messages that I give her heart always turn her to the King. I pray above all else that she will fall deeply in love with Him and follow Him all the days of her life. I also pray that this mama will have the wisdom from above to guide her to be the princess God wants her to be.
I caught her looking at herself in a mirror this week, smiling and admiring herself. Very cute and innocent. She likes herself. It made me start thinking about all the messages girls and women are given about beauty. What little girl doesn't feel deep down within that she is special, that she wants to be someone's beautiful princess when she grows up? But few seem to really still believe they are anything special by the time they reach adulthood. Could it be we buy into the message that there is only one kind of beauty, only one personality that is the best, that uniqueness is something to bring to conformity with the norm, that fulfillment comes from possessions or a relationship with a man?
God is the King of Kings, the creator of the universe, and the one who knits us together in our mother's wombs. He loves us unconditionally, faithfully, patiently. He loves who we are. He created our unique qualities. He pursues us and saves us from the dragons. He lovingly confronts and forgives. He desires that we display His glory and fulfill His plans. This is beauty, a quiet spirit yielded to God's will, walking in faith, in true relationship with Him. A woman who knows her purpose and delights in who God made her to be.
This is my pray for my little girl. May the messages that I give her heart always turn her to the King. I pray above all else that she will fall deeply in love with Him and follow Him all the days of her life. I also pray that this mama will have the wisdom from above to guide her to be the princess God wants her to be.
"Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?" James 2:5
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