Monday, 9 February 2015

Every little girl wants to be beautiful!...1Peter 3:4






Miss Teens and the Girls




It never gets old. During my time and still today; every girl wants to be a princess. Every girl wants to be beautiful. Every girl wants to touch, hug, and be Miss Teen/ Namibia. We grew up believing that being crowned with a beauty pageant title means the world to a young woman. Like Snow White you become “the fairest of them all” not really knowing the cost behind that pretty face and figure.
Don’t get me wrong: there is nothing wrong with Physical beauty; looking back at my pre-teen years though; I wished there was someone who could have been honest and open with me to tell me as a young girl that good looks is not all there is nor is it our true identity, but there is a much more greater beauty that goes beyond good looks and skin itself. A beauty that doesn’t age or fade away but rather forever more is being renewed. A beauty that doesn’t cost money or cosmetics to enhance it  and that God himself considers it to be special and delights in it.  It is the type of beauty that produces and bears effective and contagious fruits.  And only a few finds it when guided well.
I watched as my girls jump for joy.
 “Ms. Josua.” They exclaimed. “I just want to look like her one day, so beautiful!”
I could see myself in these little girls. Once young, beauty pageants stirred up the same desires within me. I mean who wouldn’t want to look like a super model?
Beautiful, tall, and thin.  They want to have their bodies, their smiles, and their clothes. Oh, how expensive it is to be beautiful! 

Funny, a few minute later some of the girls came up to me and gave me early valentines’ love cards. And as they leaned into hug me. I thought to myself:  here you are, you already got it inside of you. A heart of love and kindness. This is beauty right here. Without a brush of makeup. It’s all crystal-clear clear!  I looked at them straight in the eyes and said it honestly;
 “You don’t have to join a beauty pageant in order for you to know that you are beautiful. You are beautiful, just the way you are and you don’t need a Miss teen crown to confirm that for you.”
And there it was, twinkles in the eyes and bright smiles across their faces, they needed to hear it and hear it every day just like every girl out there. I have nothing against Miss Teen and I wouldn’t keep a child from dreaming big unless those dreams are building upon false hope and wrong understanding. I will not have them fall prey and believe the same lie I once believed for so long to be true. Of course I know that they will have to learn much more and make certain choices as they go on in life. But it’s better to sow the first seed now which is part of laying the foundation. There is a way to be beautiful and be a true princess without being ranked according to the worldly standards.  And I believe every young girl and woman should be taught this simple truth.  A beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quite Spirit, which is so precious to God.
 ( 1Peter 3:4)
   I learned this truth just at the right time, through an amazing woman who cared enough to let me know and it surely changed my life tremendously, therefore I will not hold it back from my girls. After all it is by knowing the truth that we are set free.





Admiring Miss Teen

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