Elizabeth Foss has created a space to encourage and to be encouraged.
Won’t you join the conversation?
About Kind Conversation (from Elizabeth Foss):
The journey to this post was a long one, a prayerful one, and a surprisingly fruitful one. I have heard you and I have listened. I truly, truly hope I’ve listened well. Even more, I have heard Him and I have listened. And gosh, I do hope I got that message right:-)!We’ve created something for you.If you want a quiet place to share a vision of rhythm and beauty, holiness and joy,If you want to talk about the ideas you read here and on Serendipity and in my books,If you are a woman in search of companions on a journey to God,come walk with us.Come if you want to encourage and to be encouraged. Come if you love the Lord and want to dedicate your life to living His vision for you.come if you want to bring His Presence alive in your home.Come if you have a heart for kind conversation.Come!I look forward to seeing you there!{Registrations will be approved as quickly as possible. Kind Conversation is a private community only visible to registered, approved members.}
Be sure to also read these heartfelt guidelines for Kind Conversation. Even if you don’t end up joining the network, Elizabeth’s wisdom is good food for thought. Our words are powerful. They can bless, encourage, and teach. But they also can hurt, disparage, and wound – even when our intentions are to do just the opposite. I personally have to be careful with the words I wield. I’m eager to use gentle, hopeful words over at Kind Conversation.
While you’re there, consider joining a group I created called Made In God’s Image that I hope will help us all to embrace our femininity, motherhood (stretch marks and all) as well as the real beauty traits of a worthy, kind, and spirited Christian woman. Let us help one another pursue emotional, spiritual, and physical health by cherishing and taking care of our bodies rather than chastising them.
You are so much more than the size of your hips.
About the Made In God’s Image Group:
During the 2008 celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Pope Benedict XVI reminded women all over the world that the feast was a chance to “contemplate the reflection of the Beauty who saves the world: the beauty of God that shines on the face of Christ.” Mary reflects this Beauty, and we should never stop contemplating how we can become more like her in all that we do and say.
This is what I hope we can all encourage one another to do with this group and with our lives – to embrace what God, not society, finds beautiful and worthy.
I look forward to hearing everyone’s feedback, comments, inspiration, etc. The topics for this group are endless.
Here are just a few ideas that come to mind:
- Making peace with our bodies
- Raising children with healthy body images
- Feeding our bodies with healthy food and feeding our souls with the Bread of Life
- Pursuing real beauty (the kind of beauty Our Blessed Mother, saints, and other people of goodness and kindness possess)
- Incorporating fitness and healthy eating into our lives as a means of taking care of our bodies – true temples of the Holy Spirit – not just to look a certain way or to squeeze in to our skinny jeans
- Embracing motherhood and the sacrificial and physical signs being a mother leaves on our bodies
- Remembering the adage “age before beauty”
- Overcoming the barrage of unhealthy media messages that tell us we’re better if we look a certain (unrealistic!) way
- Sharing chic yet modest and feminine fashion ideas
This is just a start. Thank you for your interest in the Made In God’s Image Group, and thank you for joining in on this conversation. I owe many thanks to an e-friend of mine named Cathy Adamkiewicz for encouraging me to put myself out there and starting to talk about this important topic. And, of course, many thanks to Elizabeth Foss for inviting us to engage in kind, uplifting conversations.
God bless you all, and remember you are made in the image of God and that alone makes you beautiful!
Join the kind conversation today, and be sure to spread the word to your friends, family members, and fellow sisters in Christ.
UPDATE: Oh, goody. For those of your who are interested, someone has started an attachment parenting group as well. Blessings!
