Hum, this is a little awkward, but this guest post might be a little too … gritty for some of you.
This guest post is by a writer whose blog I have just recently subscribed to. She writes poignantly about whatever she chooses, often dealing with some of the daily plights that females might face.
The post I am providing a link to, today, is called Girl.
Girl reads something like a diary entry, written by a teenage girl. It is specific enough in it’s detail to let the reader understand the heart of this girl, yet leaves enough ‘holes’ where there is an absence of details to make you wonder.
As I read it I thought of the teenage girls I pass in the halls of the high school I work, every. day.
I thought of individual girls … girls who fake confidence … girls who ‘look’ tough … girls whose eyes … don’t … look.
Girls who struggle to fit. anywhere. with anyone.
Girls who were once …
cradled in their mother’s arms
cheered as they took their first steps
wondered at the bean seed they planted
smiled proudly as they were applauded at Christmas concerts
giggled with their girlfriends while swinging higher on the playground
What happened?
What is happening?
To our girls.
I say this as a mom who delights in the whimsical, beautiful, confusing, frustrating, magical, wonder-filled packages of hormone-filled females that my daughters are.
I say this as woman who works in a high school, and I see girls who are losing … have lost, all that they were created for.
I say this as a Christian woman, who knows that my breaking, broken heart for this beautiful creatures is breaking and broken like their Creator.
They were created for
SO MUCH MORE!
So, some of you might not want to click on the link I have provided today.
It might be too gritty.
It might be too upsetting.
But, I believe, it is the social justice issue that never gets mentioned, has always existed, and is within the power of all of us living in the First World to improve, impact, and maybe even … change.
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