About my day.

Today, I got up early at 6:00 and started on school with my little brothers. (I'm homeschooled.) Then I left at around 8:20 to go to piano lessons. I haven't been with my new teacher long, but I love her. She is the fourth piano teacher I've had since I was in 3rd grade. This is a good thing, because it's given me different experiences with different styles of teaching. I've had realllly loose teachers, and pretty strict teachers. Fun teachers and more serious teachers. My teacher now happens to be one of the fun ones. She cracks me up, and I don't even think she's aware of it when she's being funny. But she is still a good teacher that keeps me on track with my pieces and theory and such, while staying fun.

Came home from lessons in the afternoon and finished school. Had a little free time. Ate supper with the family. After dinner, Momma wanted us to listen to a funny country song she had heard on the radio. I suggested that we look it up on YouTube and watch the video for it too.

I was kind of disappointed.

The song was funny, and it was about hillbillies. But the video really didn't have a whole lot to do with the song. About half the time, the camera was zoomed in on women's bare midriffs and low-riding short shorts. As we were watching this video (My mom said that she must have been dumb to think it would be clean), I thought "And we wonder why teenage girls and women these days are insecure?"

We hear it everywhere, about young girls and women having confidence in themselves. That's great, but are people really backing it up? All they seem to want to do is shove in our faces unrealistic images of what they think a woman should look like, I guess. Everything is wrong with this.

Girls feel insecure. They get the impression that it's all about your outward appearance, not who you are inside. They may think that this is what they need to do to get a guy, and it might work. But it will be the totally wrong guy, one with wrong motives.

And then there's the fact this it's just...sin! Jesus said to gaurd our hearts and to not set our eyes on unclean things. Are we watching something good and wholesome when we take in things like this? I don't really think so.

So this is for all those girls who feel kind of insecure sometimes. I feel like that too some days, but , you know, God made us in His image. He thinks we're beautiful no matter what. And if you think you need to dress like that to get a guy, think again. What kind of a guy do I want to attract? A guy that just wants to take advantage of me, or a good, Christian boy who will love me for who I am inside?

So girls remember...we have every reason to think we are beautiful. 'Cause ,you know, God did design us. :)