Body Image

I think body image is something a huge percent of people struggle with, girls in particular. I have had one of my very best friends struggle with annorexia and bullemia. She went away for several months to an institution to be treated. Little does she knowher problem has probably saved me from my own. Body image is something very difficult to deal with. There are very fine lines that cross from just wanting to be more in shape or unhealthy ideas about yourself. It breaks my heart when beautiful girls can't see the beauty everyone else see's, but it is a tragedy when girls lose their identity of who they are in Christ because they are so consumed with the lies in their head about how they look. I know the struggle, I have been there in a small way, but I have heard those lies and I have also learned that God can conquere them. It is such a common thing these days, yet the feelings are real. Girls are torn apart by this "common" condition. We need to be careful and make sure our culture doesn't start recognizinga girl struggling with eating disorders as "the norm." Pay attention to the little things, you may help someone more than you had expected. Be the one person they need to start winning the battle.

Genocide

What do you even say about this? Rather than there being nothing to say about this topic, there is all most TOO much to say that I can't think of anything worthy of representing my thoughts on this terror. Genocide is ridiculous. There is NOTHING Biblical about genocide. The only time anything like this has happened was when God was purifying the Israelites to be his people and that was genuinely ordered by God. How could you kill a single human being? How could you ever get to the point where lives mean absolutely nothing to you so that you could kill them in masses and never even wince? What a clever devil satan is. People must be blind and have their hearts hardened to the core to think that they are so superior to others that killing them out of existence is the answer. I cannot even imagine seeing a person get shot, but enormous numbers is unimaginable. It makes me think of how important it is to catch these things early. Appreciating peoples' diversity on even the smallest level is a great place to start. Jesus made all people. Yes, people may have different beliefs, but just because we don't agree with those beliefs, doesn't mean we cannot still love the person.