"Modesty is Progressive"
You are enough.
So I finally removed all of the pictures that would make me feel uncomfortable that were on my Instagram page....
For some time now I've really been thinking of how I want to show myself to the world and the people around me. Sometimes I look at the posts that are on my personal Instagram page and I feel really uncomfortable😂. I know it's weird, like how could my own pictures make me feel uncomfortable? I noticed that certain poses, facial expressions and many other different things just didn't reflect the person I want to be or the person that I'm working on becoming.
I spoke to my friend, Tino❤, about it (follow her @tinotenda_nyemba) and she said that it's actually so crazy how she was just thinking about the same thing the day before. She said...
"The other day I was talking to one of my friends and I was explaining to her that modesty is progressive. Today something may be comfortable and the next day it’s not. It’s according to conviction. Don’t be so hard on yourself but also be aware of what you post because it is a reflection of who you are".
I struggle everyday to meet the standards of what this society deems to be "appropriate" especially for a young Christian girl who is also a PK (Pastor's Kid) with my body type. Finding clothing that doesn't offend people is always so hard for me and that's something that not everyone will understand. Trying to look young and decent at the same time. When I wear more conservative clothing I can come off as super old sometimes. But then I look for something that is a bit more "youthful" and I feel uncomfortable. I just want an image that I am proud of that doesn't make me or anyone else uncomfortable.
Just want God to look at me and be proud of me. I really felt that uncomfortable feeling that I've been having towards some of my posts should be listened to.
If I'm being completely honest I think a lot of it had to do with also just stunting on people who had also done me dirty in the past like friends and boys and stuff😂. To show them that I'm still the baddest in the streets😂 but I don't need to prove anything to people that treat me or have treated me like I'm inadequate. God loves me and he made me enough. I'm just reaching new places even within myself of contentness, gratitude and comfortability. I'm completely aware of God and his presence in my life as well as what he wants to do in me, through me and for me. It just feels good to be at this place in my life and I want to be able to listen when being instructed by the Holy Spirit.
I don't want this post to be too long but I just wanted to remind everyone that YOU ARE ENOUGH. No matter what anyone says. No matter what anyone has done to you. Just because they couldn't see it or acknowledge your worth doesn't mean you have to go out of your way to prove anything to anyone because you are beautiful (ladies) and handsome (gentlemen) just the way you are. Be you and be brave enough to show the rest of the world the you that YOU'RE proud of. Don't show a you that you want them to accept because it's at the cost of your own happiness and truth.
Psalms 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Thank you for taking some time out to read this❤.
God bless💫
'Til next time
So I finally removed all of the pictures that would make me feel uncomfortable that were on my Instagram page....
For some time now I've really been thinking of how I want to show myself to the world and the people around me. Sometimes I look at the posts that are on my personal Instagram page and I feel really uncomfortable😂. I know it's weird, like how could my own pictures make me feel uncomfortable? I noticed that certain poses, facial expressions and many other different things just didn't reflect the person I want to be or the person that I'm working on becoming.
I spoke to my friend, Tino❤, about it (follow her @tinotenda_nyemba) and she said that it's actually so crazy how she was just thinking about the same thing the day before. She said...
"The other day I was talking to one of my friends and I was explaining to her that modesty is progressive. Today something may be comfortable and the next day it’s not. It’s according to conviction. Don’t be so hard on yourself but also be aware of what you post because it is a reflection of who you are".
I struggle everyday to meet the standards of what this society deems to be "appropriate" especially for a young Christian girl who is also a PK (Pastor's Kid) with my body type. Finding clothing that doesn't offend people is always so hard for me and that's something that not everyone will understand. Trying to look young and decent at the same time. When I wear more conservative clothing I can come off as super old sometimes. But then I look for something that is a bit more "youthful" and I feel uncomfortable. I just want an image that I am proud of that doesn't make me or anyone else uncomfortable.
Just want God to look at me and be proud of me. I really felt that uncomfortable feeling that I've been having towards some of my posts should be listened to.
If I'm being completely honest I think a lot of it had to do with also just stunting on people who had also done me dirty in the past like friends and boys and stuff😂. To show them that I'm still the baddest in the streets😂 but I don't need to prove anything to people that treat me or have treated me like I'm inadequate. God loves me and he made me enough. I'm just reaching new places even within myself of contentness, gratitude and comfortability. I'm completely aware of God and his presence in my life as well as what he wants to do in me, through me and for me. It just feels good to be at this place in my life and I want to be able to listen when being instructed by the Holy Spirit.
I don't want this post to be too long but I just wanted to remind everyone that YOU ARE ENOUGH. No matter what anyone says. No matter what anyone has done to you. Just because they couldn't see it or acknowledge your worth doesn't mean you have to go out of your way to prove anything to anyone because you are beautiful (ladies) and handsome (gentlemen) just the way you are. Be you and be brave enough to show the rest of the world the you that YOU'RE proud of. Don't show a you that you want them to accept because it's at the cost of your own happiness and truth.
Psalms 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Thank you for taking some time out to read this❤.
God bless💫
'Til next time
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