well I recently went to a little pageant for some friends of mine (with my 3 boys, that was a crazy idea!) before I go any further you must know that I am by no means a girly girl. I never have been, growing up in a house with 3 brothers and a close youth group of mostly boys, kept me from enjoying the frills of life.
I do get the urge to do extremely girly things at times, hence the pageant.
While I'm sitting there I couldn't help but watch all the girls on stage (I love to observe people), and I couldn't help but notice the insecurity on the faces of some of the young girls as they announced the winner. So I started deciding right then that I do not like pageants, why do we as humans feel the need to define beauty that way? It's not God's way at all, after all we know he looks at the heart, and the Judges don't even get to spend a day with those girls. REALLY? does anyone win? the winner gets prideful (because after all she has just been crowed the most beautiful) and the ones who don't win automatically feel as though they are not good enough in some way or another....I fought the urge to run and jump on stage and tell each and every one of those girls just how beautiful they are to our Savior and how uniquely He created them. They were all beautiful to me, not because they fit our societies mold of what beauty looks like, but because every flaw is just part of God's way in making them stand out to Him. Do we really think God delights in that?
your thoughts are appreciated...
beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and as far as I'm concerned The Ultimate Beholder has already stamped his approval on every one of us.
Abbs*
I feel the same way. That is why I don't do pageants with my kids. When they ask to do one I'll think about it. I know when I did pageants in high school it was fun to win, I was proud to be crowned! Did it go to my head, yes (as I matured & look back & can say that now). But there were other girls who I knew where great girls, that didn't place or win anything & I knew what a beauty they really were as a person inside & out. The ideal of beauty is different for everyone & in today's society it is a "must". I don't want my girls to feel they have to be beautiful to be someone. I want them to know who they are as a person, not by what they look like on the outside. In this instance be glad you have boys!
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