You Just Be You

Check out this song which was written and sung by Virtue!

In a world that seems so fake, artificial everything;
oh I just want be real,
I gotta say how I feel, can't wait.

Always looking at myself,
never liking what I see;
I never gave me the chance,
never knew what I really could be.

(Better than living a lie),
(it's better than wearing a disguise);
take a chance on you,
(You just be you),
(take a chance on you).

I can't say the world has changed,
they still judge by what they see.
Though I can't help what they say,
I know who's inside of me.

It's okay to take that chance,
try your possibilities (possibilities);
no one can do what you do,
or stop all the things you can be
(they can't even stop what you're gonna be).

(Better than living a lie) living a lie,
(it's better than wearing a disguise);
take a chance on you,
(You just be you),
(take a chance on you, on you).

The grass is always green on the other side,
it's when you're looking through your insecure eyes.
And it's better than living a lie (living a lie),
so much better than wearing a disguise,
(take a chance on you) You just be you,
(You just be you, You just be you).

It's better (better)
than living a lie (living a lie),
so much better than wearing a disguise;
(take a chance on you),
(take a chance on you),
(take a chance on you),
You just be you.

Challenge of A Christian Teen

I believe the biggest challenge I have faced as a Christian teen is the media's focus on the female's fashion styles and beauty images. The media has portrayed women, who are mostly slim and have hourglass shapes in very sexual outfits. When young teens see these images in movies, blogs, websites, music videos, t.v. shows, and commercials, these images stay in their minds. Males tend to compare regular young teenage ladies to these images stained in their minds. When us, girls don't fit their high standards based on models and such, we feel inadequate. To make us feel important and loved we then resort to dressing innapropriately with short shorts and skirts, tight jeans, low-cut shirts, and flirt extra-hard to get the boys' attention. Other girls give up. They think they are not good enough so they say, "why stay in a fight I know I will loose?" Some of them choose suicide. 

Many young ladies have low self esteem issues because of the lack of attention or because they feel less attractive than another girls. I'm saying this from my own experience. I had low-self esteem issues, I thought I was not good enough. Guys didn't flock to me trying to get my number. I thought I wasn't beautiful. Then I realized. I am beautiful, because God made me beautiful and my parents say I'm beautiful. I have been created in his image. No one can tell me otherwise.

I have a burning passion and desire to help young girls like myself to learn to love and cherish themselves. When they have a healthy love for themselves they will respect themselves. In respecting themselves they will not tolerate others being disrespectful to them. They will not allow others to talk down to them or others because they are Children of God. They will not allow others to touch them innapropriately because they are a Child of the Most High. They will not permit rude language to be spoken around them because they are a Child of the King.

Please pray for a piece of land that I have found that would suit the retreat center perfectly. Please pray that the money will be found to purchase this land!