This week is guest week on the blog! We’re finalizing Kharis’ adoption this week, so I asked a few friends to share with you while I’m celebrating! I pray that you’re as blessed by them as I am!
At any given time in our home, you will probably find our girls wearing clothes that, in society’s opinion, don’t match. Our oldest daughter likes long socks and pulls them up as high as they can go, even sometimes when she is wearing sandals. Sunday morning comes and while they are clean and their clothes are clean, there is still the probability they don’t match.
You know what? I love it.
Let me say that when making or purchasing clothes for them, they have to be appropriate. I don’t have to worry that our girls will pick something out that they couldn’t wear.
Here’s is why….
They need to feel like they are in charge of taking care of themselves. Notice how I said “feel.” As a parent we still have control but as a way to show them we appreciate the individual God made them to be, we let them control their style.
God didn’t make us all to like the same things, or to want to dress the same way. As a teenager, I was quite different than my peers (although I do have to say, my clothes were inappropriate at times) and my mother would try to get me to be “normal.”
It hurt. It felt like I wasn’t meeting her standards on who I should be or what I should look like. During a phase of jeans and t-shirts, she constantly told me I looked like a boy.
That is not what I want for my girls. I want my girls to know that God made them special. I want my girls to know that I love them for who they are…because God loves me and made me special.
God is perfect, He doesn’t make mistakes….and He made you.
Psalm 139:14 “I praise you because you made is an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful….”
Jacki is a daughter of a King, a wife to an amazing husband and a mama to 3 little girls and one on the way. They are a military family who tries to live life as natural and handmade as possible and Jacki is found blogging at Crafted by Mama, on Facebook, Twitter, Bloglovin, and Etsy!
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Christie is a stay-at-home mom to two beautiful little girls, a pastor's wife, and lover of Jesus. Her hope is that STC would be a source of encouragement for women all over the world!
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What a beautiful message to send to our children 🙂