What's your favourite slogan or catchphrase from an advert?
How about...
"Because you're worth it" ~ L'Oreal
...?
At first hearing it you think someone out there cares about you, then you realise that they only want to sell their product, the people on their advert are airbrushed, and basically it's all fake. It makes you think you should be like them. I'm not speaking from my experience - personally I'm happy as I am! But there are so many people out there looking for acceptance, and that's where Jesus should come in. As a fifteen year old girl, I see my friends searching for that inner acceptance, and cannot understand why they won't give Jesus a try. They don't realise that they don't have to actually DO ANYTHING! They think as a Christian, you have to go to church, pray, read the Bible, blah blah blah but really Christianity is the opposite. It's about God loving you for exactly who you are and what you are and not caring about all these things! Of course, these build you up in the long term, you make friends and encourage each other, and grow with God but it's not obligation, it's fun! Praying is having a chat with my best friend not kneeling in front of a little wooden cross in a stone cold church building somewhere with a choir singing! I walk and chat and have a good time!
I love the song "More Beautiful You" by Jonny Diaz, because he sings about life as it is...
Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine
Says she wants to look that way
But her hair isn't straight her body isn't fake
And she's always felt overweight
Well little girl fourteen I wish that you could see
That beauty is within your heart
And you were made with such care your skin your body and your hair
Are perfect just the way they are
(CHORUS)
There could never be a more beautiful you
Don't buy the lies disguises and hoops they make you jump through
You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do
So there could never be a more beautiful you
Little girl twenty-one the things that you've already done
Anything to get ahead
And you say you've got a man but he's got another plan
Only wants what you'll do instead
Well little girl twenty-one you never thought that this would come
You starve yourself to play the part
But I can promise you there's a man whose love is true
And he'll treat you like the jewel you are
(CHORUS)
So turn around you're not too far
To back away be who you are
To change your path go another way
It's not too late you can be saved
If you feel depressed with past regrets
The shameful nights hope to forget
Can disappear they can all be washed away
By the one who's strong can right your wrongs
Can rid your fears dry all your tears
And change the way you look at this big world
He will take your dark distorted view
And with His light He will show you truth
And again you'll see through the eyes of a little girl
(CHORUS)
There could never be a more beautiful you
YOU ARE PERFECT JUST THE WAY YOU ARE. Don't strive to be anyone else, you are God's amazing creation! If anyone tells you otherwise, they are lying, so don't believe them. Ask God to put a cover round your heart.
Because God thinks you're worth it... and so do I!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ks3R2BwyO0&feature=related <--- Jonny Diaz - More Beautiful You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psqOp8pcY0o <--- The Story Behind the Song :)
Monday, 22 February 2010
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Well, I haven't written to my blog in a while now, but today my entry is about life. Sometimes we don't know where we are going, or even know where we WANT to be going. But it's all laid out there and all we have to do is let God direct us. Close your eyes and imagine someone leading you. Sometimes we are blind to where we are going, but totally trust that that person with their hands on our shoulders is guiding us to the best place possible. We sometimes have no way of seeing where we are going, but a lot of the time we haven't got a blindfold, we are simply just not opening our eyes. God says many times in the Bible that we should not worry because He is taking us on the best journey we can ever have. That is one with Him :)
Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
We can make our own plans, but the Lord gives the right answer - Proverbs 16:1
It's refreshing to know these things. It brings a smile to my face, and a warm fuzzy feeling to my stomach, and yes... I am sitting here like a numpty grinning at my computer screen! But do you know what, I don't even care!
I can't remember what the verse was now, I didn't get a chance to write it down, but at my baptism I got given a verse by someone about God leading my pathway, and me bringing others along too. It was so encouraging, I just wish I had written it down!
Even though God has this pathway for us, we still have a choice. There are many different pathways leading other ways, or that God has given us other pathways always leading back to the straight and narrow one. And if there's such a thing as heart strings, which reading my other blogs entries you may think I definitely believe they exist, then I think they are attached to us like safety ropes, when we fall off the pathway, they tug us back in. I believe this because God has chosen us to follow His way. He asks nothing in return, and we get a life plan ahead of us. Sure, there are hills, and pits we fall into and struggle to climb, but we'll get there in the end :)
God bless xxxxxxxx
Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
We can make our own plans, but the Lord gives the right answer - Proverbs 16:1
It's refreshing to know these things. It brings a smile to my face, and a warm fuzzy feeling to my stomach, and yes... I am sitting here like a numpty grinning at my computer screen! But do you know what, I don't even care!
I can't remember what the verse was now, I didn't get a chance to write it down, but at my baptism I got given a verse by someone about God leading my pathway, and me bringing others along too. It was so encouraging, I just wish I had written it down!
Even though God has this pathway for us, we still have a choice. There are many different pathways leading other ways, or that God has given us other pathways always leading back to the straight and narrow one. And if there's such a thing as heart strings, which reading my other blogs entries you may think I definitely believe they exist, then I think they are attached to us like safety ropes, when we fall off the pathway, they tug us back in. I believe this because God has chosen us to follow His way. He asks nothing in return, and we get a life plan ahead of us. Sure, there are hills, and pits we fall into and struggle to climb, but we'll get there in the end :)
God bless xxxxxxxx
Monday, 1 February 2010
A New Chapter
On youth camp this weekend, I have learnt a lot about things.
For one, I think I managed not to gossip, and it felt so good. I am a gossip sometimes, and that's something I don't like about myself.
Secondly, God doesn't need to be loud to be there.
I knew this before but the worship at the weekend away was a bit less "joyful" than I expected. I missed the fact that the atmosphere was just the same. God was there. He saw people's hearts, unlike I, who saw less effort. But the atmosphere was the same because God was there, and it's a shame to think I almost missed that.
Also I got to know everyone much better and see a different side to the people I already knew, which was a great opportunity, and to meet new people.
With some exciting, and some sad things coming up, it's always good to realise that God's beginning a new chapter for ALL of us, just as he did on that cross many many years ago.
For one, I think I managed not to gossip, and it felt so good. I am a gossip sometimes, and that's something I don't like about myself.
Secondly, God doesn't need to be loud to be there.
I knew this before but the worship at the weekend away was a bit less "joyful" than I expected. I missed the fact that the atmosphere was just the same. God was there. He saw people's hearts, unlike I, who saw less effort. But the atmosphere was the same because God was there, and it's a shame to think I almost missed that.
Also I got to know everyone much better and see a different side to the people I already knew, which was a great opportunity, and to meet new people.
With some exciting, and some sad things coming up, it's always good to realise that God's beginning a new chapter for ALL of us, just as he did on that cross many many years ago.
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