Run then Look

“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

-Roald Dahl

Recently, God has been working in my heart, changing and shifting me into a woman that looks and acts like Him, and treats others like Jesus does. I have started a Bible study with my girls and the study is called Beauty By The Book. The study is going to show us in the Bible how important it is to guard our hearts from the world's view of "beauty", and concentrate on how God views us as Christian women. This has been tugging on my heart lately because I have been struggling with comparing myself with "it-girls" of the media, while God says we are made in his image.

This study is not only good for myself, but I know it is going to be a great experience to go through the book with my closest friends.


Last night (June 3, 2013), a few of us girls went over to my friend Avery's house and we had a mini Bible study/deep-talk time. It was a great time for us to talk.
Our discussion lead to purity/modesty/relationships, and it was such a God thing, because us three (Tylar, Avery, and I) all have the same views about relationships.

           Now, I have really been praying and talking to God about the whole relationship thing, and I believe that I am at a place where I have placed my life completely in His hands, and if God-My Father puts an amazing Christian guy in my path during high school, then who knows! Maybe God has something for me to learn from this guy! I am not limiting myself to absolutely no dating, but I have decided that I am not just going to throw myself out to the first guy who, even just a little, shows interest.

I was reading Proverbs 31, and this chapter of the Bible characterizes an "ideal, godly woman". My favorite verses from this chapter where these:
V.20- "She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy."
V.26- "She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue."
V.30- "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."

"You're everything I ever wanted, everything I ever needed. You've ravished my heart."
-My Dear by Bethel Music

Why have a guy when you can have the King?!?
It has recently become very very important to me, to know who I am in God. To know my identity in Him. Now I do not know about you, but I have heard that said so many times. But then the other day, it clicked when I read a quote that talked about, if you run fast towards God, and look to your left or right and see someone running in the same direction, that is a man worth your heart. This quote made me realize that I just need to do what God wants me to do, which is to love Him with ALL that I have, and to love others exactly like He loves me.
So this got me thinking, that I do not Need a boyfriend in my life right now! What I really need is to strengthen my relationship with God to the point when I do have a boyfriend, he and I are both able to always put God before our relationship and make HIM center.


"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."
1 Peter 4:8