Growing up, I was always the "different" one; at least I felt like that. I didn't feel like I fit in with the "crowd" and deep inside, I wanted to fit. I wanted to be accepted. So I found myself trying this hairstyle and that hairstyle; dressing this way and then dressing that way. But nothing seemed to work. I just was different.
So in my later teen years, I decided to just be me, and as I learned how to express who I was, the more I felt "normal."
In life, our children are always going to be running into peer pressure and the fear of not being accepted. It's something that everyone goes through at some point in life. The thing that is important is to realize our worth in Jesus and that we don't have to impress, be accepted into the "popular" circles, or look like the crowd.
The Bible says that Jesus wasn't attractive; he looked like the ordinary, every day man. No special features or in the world's words, "hottness." I think what God is looking for in a person is a beauty within our spirit and hearts, not our outward appearance. I wish more people, boys and girls alike, could see and understand that they don't have to have the Justin Bieber look, or the Selena Gomez beauty to be accepted. Being who they are and letting the light of Jesus shine through them is what makes them beautiful.
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