I was so unique
Now I feel skin deep
I count on the make-up to cover it all
Crying myself to sleep cause I
cannot keep their attention
I thought I could be strong
But it's killing me

Does someone hear my cry?
I'm dying for new life

[Chorus]
I want to be beautiful
Make you stand in awe
Look inside my heart,
and be amazed
I want to hear you say
Who I am is quite enough
Just want to be worthy of love
And beautiful

Sometimes I wish I was someone other than me
Fighting to make the mirror happy
Trying to find whatever is missing
Won't you help me back to glory

[Chorus]

You make me beautiful
You make me stand in awe
You step inside my heart, and I am amazed
I love to hear You say
Who I am is quite enough
You make me worthy of love and beautiful

Bethany Dillon "Beautiful"

I think these verses are every girl's heart cry, at least sometime in their lives. We just want to feel beautiful, loved, appreciated for who we are, yet there is so much pressure to hide our true self. Makeup to cover up the flaws, clothes to reveal the body...comparison round every corner. And we wonder why the age of *sexual activity has lowered rapidly in the last few years?? More people **cut themselves now than ever "known of" in the past decade. ***Anorexia & Bulima has risen so high...and due to what?! It breaks my heart that society finds it "acceptable" for these things to go on, yet there will be huge political debates, family issues and social disputes about the very same issues. The things that are tearing todays generation apart, yet nowdays you are labelled "frigid" if you haven't been sexually active by 14-17.

Why must there be so much comparison? The media has urged the issue to the forefront - magazines, tv shows, movies, photoshopped images that make perfection and trying to attain that perfect body/face look like the ONLY ideal. The only way you can be sucessful - wear a mini skirt to impress the boss. There are perfectly qualified, beautiful women that exploit their own beauty without even considering it unusual. What children wear is an even more amazing "accepted" thing in todays society. People are no longer shocked to see a 5 year old walking around wearing a halter neck, mini skirt, high boots & makeup. "She wants to be just like mummy" is the popular phrase when faced with the image the child portrays. It may sound innocent, but the truth is far from it.

What a long way we have come from the days of ankle length dresses & overcoats! Change of the times it may be, but morally uplifting - certainly not.

My heart sometimes fills with the cry in the first chorus, yet I hold onto the promise in the second chorus - Jesus sees me as beautiful, He makes me feel worthy of love. Try however else you want to conform, stand out or make your own beauty guidelines, but you'll be hard pressed to find unconditional love and acceptance that goes past the shallow beauty and into your very soul. He created you - does not the creator have more pride, joy and love in his creation than anyone else ever could?

I just wanted to get this down...some thoughts for food, if you want to eat.

Before I go, just an exert from an article...

Common sense bears this out: in the last twenty-five years we have been inundated with sex education courses in schools, and the media has bombarded us with sex. Yet during this same period of time we have witnessed an unprecedented escalation of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and abortions. Even if the former is not a cause of the latter, surely the former has not prevented the latter.

Clearly, the problem is not one of lack of information. The problem is the eradication of any framework of values in which to make decisions about sex. This is the real issue which the sex educators refuse to address.

Indeed, this is the major shortcoming of most sex education programs today. They treat children as animals, divorcing sexuali

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