Last Friday night the family and I loaded up and headed to our rival town to watch some football! Now since we are homeschooled we don't actually "have" a team per say, but we always cheer for my high school alma mater. So we were all, "Go Birds!" for this game. It was the first game of the season and a big game for our county. Since we were the visiting team we were all squished in a small section of bleachers. A lot of people were standing around a fence that surrounded the field...it was a big (nonconference) game. We got stuck very close to the where the high school students sat (ugh). Spoiler alert: the rival team won for the first time in 27 years!The game wasn't really exciting to me at all. I would rather people watch anyway. Do you want to know what I saw? The equivalent of a bunch of robots. Now yes, as a whole everyone was wearing the same colors to support our team BUT this... well just let me tell you how it was. This is just mostly for the girls that were around us, but almost ALL of them had the same shoes, hairstyles, brands of purses (the ones that brought them). If you were a brunette you looked like all of the other brunettes, and seriously I had a hard time telling any of the blondes apart!
I wish I could just take them and make them see how all of that mess (for lack of a better term) is not important. But I know they wouldn't listen and right now, it is important to them. Everyone knows that popular is better than unpopular, right? WRONG?!
Maybe if they understood the most important things in life are not things at all and people are not the ones we need to worry about impressing. I am steadily working on this with my kids. Here is the thing: I was one of those girls. I never fully accomplished my goal of completely "fitting in" but I was right there among those popular girls. Desiring to have their hair, their clothes, their money, their confidence... I could pretend with the best of them.
It is a normal human emotion to want to be liked and accepted, but how far would you go? How far would you go to fit in? What if you were made to be different? You were...
We are each uniquely created by a God that loves us more than we can imagine. He planned your personality, talents, gifts, and abilities so that you can impact others. So do you boo!
"Without authenticity we are only a poor imitation of someone else" -Tom Hayes
I wish I could just take them and make them see how all of that mess (for lack of a better term) is not important. But I know they wouldn't listen and right now, it is important to them. Everyone knows that popular is better than unpopular, right? WRONG?!
Maybe if they understood the most important things in life are not things at all and people are not the ones we need to worry about impressing. I am steadily working on this with my kids. Here is the thing: I was one of those girls. I never fully accomplished my goal of completely "fitting in" but I was right there among those popular girls. Desiring to have their hair, their clothes, their money, their confidence... I could pretend with the best of them.
It is a normal human emotion to want to be liked and accepted, but how far would you go? How far would you go to fit in? What if you were made to be different? You were...
We are each uniquely created by a God that loves us more than we can imagine. He planned your personality, talents, gifts, and abilities so that you can impact others. So do you boo!
"Without authenticity we are only a poor imitation of someone else" -Tom Hayes
Much Love,
Beth
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