Time to Bloom
I just love springtime. I love watching as vibrant flowers begin to appear in the stores and the grass gets green outside. I love seeing the leaves begin to fill the trees and the trees as they begin to bloom if they have flowers on them. It’s a season of new life, of beauty, and grace.
One of my favorite verses in the Bible, comes from Matthew 8:28-29. It says, “And why do you worry about your clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.”
Often times as women, I think that we don’t pay as much attention to this verse as we should. In the verse, Jesus is telling us not to worry about our clothes. And maybe back then it had a different meaning. It may have referred to where their clothes was coming from or if they were going to have clothing to wear because they were not a as blessed and prosperous as we are now. They may have only had one or two different articles of clothing as compared to a whole clothes closet full. But I think in today’s terms it can hit a little differently for us as women.
A lot of women have difficulty with clothing. They worry about whether the clothing is too tight or makes them look fat, makes them look too skinny or too short or whatever. And honestly that is all vain. We do not need to worry about our clothing.
As a stylist and a confidence coach, I work on encouraging women all over to see themselves as a beautiful masterpiece that they are. A piece of clothing cannot do anything to you. It is you that makes a piece of clothing look amazing. It is when we find our confidence that we are able to look at a piece of clothing and instead of asking whether it looks good on us or not we say, “Man, I make this dress look good.”
A lot of times I hear women saying that they don’t think they can pull off a piece of clothing or an accessory. Maybe it’s a bright bold color and they’re not used to wearing something so bright. Maybe it’s a fun, wild pattern and they don’t really wear patterns. But the way that fashion works (and no one tells you this) is if you like some thing and it is in your size fitting comfortably (not too tight, not too loose) then wear it. Wear it with all the confidence that you have.
You’ll find that the more confidence you have in an outfit the more compliments you’re going to get. Because outfits are cute and great and all of that but it’s your confidence that attracts people not your outfit. It is the way you walk in an outfit, the way that you carry yourself that makes or breaks that outfit.
I think it’s time for a lot of us women to start to bloom. To start something new with our life. Start something new with our fashion habits and our mindsets towards ourselves. Jesus said not to worry about your clothing and you don’t have to worry about your clothing. You look great as long as you’re walking in the confidence of who you are as a child of God. God said that he created you and when he did, he made you a masterpiece. There is nothing greater than a masterpiece that God has created. There’s nothing more beautiful, there’s nothing more unique, there’s nothing more intricate and special as as each one of us are.
God loves you and spent so much time working and creating you and he wants you to bloom in this new season. He made you to be a beautiful woman. He didn’t mess up on you. He didn’t leave anything out on you. He made you just as you were made to be. And he loves you just as you are. Therefore you need to love yourself as the child of God that you are.
I’m not saying that there are not things that we all want to work on in “fixing” ourselves. For myself, I would love to finally get braces on my teeth so that they can be straight. I know others want to lose a couple pounds, others want to gain a few pounds and those things are are all doable. But don’t beat yourself up about the small things about the little flaws that you think you have. And don’t let a piece of clothing define you or make or break you. As I said in the beginning you are the one that makes the outfit, the outfit doesn’t make you.
