worth something

today the talk for my kids at church was about self worth , this was a tricky conversation to have. i saw how the children would be fine talking about how this affected there friend and talking about how they had seen there friends have eating disorders and self harm.

but then i started turning the conversation to them and how they view themselves  needless to say they all fell silent at this point. when the finely did speek i was shocked that at the age of 12 most of them felt that the weren't skinny enough, weren't tall enough. or that they where outcast. one of the girls even said to me she didn't think any boy would go near her and that she felt sorry for any guy that did. what is wrong with the world ....

THESE CHILDREN ARE WORTH SOMETHING

  so why are they exposed to pictures like this ..

and given this unreachable image of what beauty is. girls of course you don't have an hourglass figure yet , your 12 !!!!

as for the boys the men you see with the abs and huge muscles spend hours a day wight training and have no life outside of the gym

please don't build your life around them , build it around Christ because lets face it. David , the one that beat the giant Goliath.The bible says he was a runty little shepherd boy. And Esther may have spent a whole year with the royal beauty therapist but in the end what got her her prince charming was that she was a strong independent woman of god who was as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside

so why am i on such a rant , because your worth more than i saw you believe you where today

lots of love 

Lauren

xxx