Lots of different thoughts

Yesterday evening was the first
ballet class of the semester. *Groan*
Only three and a half months since
we left off. That's what I keep telling myself. I'm already sore and my feet hurt.






So I fly to youth group, where we're standing around in the gym, I'm happily and peacefully talking to my friends when

BOOM

I'm tackled by this 180 pound senior. He knocks my feet out from under me, and I land on top of him. His elbows are in my stomach and my knees are whacked on the floor. Then he proceeds to get mad at ME for getting in the way of his...whatever he was attempting. :-D I was embarrassed and my knees bleeding, but I was laughing.

Our lesson was about self esteem. A survey team went to New York and asked 800 girls between the ages of fourteen and nineteen if they considered themselves pretty. Only 13% said yes. In a survey of 800 boys of the same age range, still only 23% said they considered themselves handome. 99% of average American women want to change something about their appearance. Why is our culture so obsessed with the way we look? Are we afraid of what people wil think of us? Do we look in the mirror and say 'what a loser.' "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17) We are princes and princesses of the King! So go look in the mirror and say "I am the beautiful and beloved child of the Creator of the Universe - look out all ye unbelievers! Here I come."






People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
- Salma Hayek