Hi Serenity

your article is timeless,  it seems like women have always been torn by feelings of inadaquecy! 

If it helps,  us "mature" women seem to find peace with ourselves as we age....some of it is the realization that we can't stop the aging process,  so we have to accept the wrinkles,  ect.  The other piece of it is seeing in others all their positive traits,  thereby helping a person to accept themself.

It's important to take care of our "temple",  to be good to our feet and our teeth!  LOL...

seriously tho,  it's a huge mistake that our culture makes by not teaching young women to value their brains,  their abilities,  their strengths!

I guess that wouldn't sell products huh?!  

If only parents,  teachers,  and others could undo the damage...

ha!  This reminded me of something.

I went to a Prophecy Conference Yesterday.  It was a "Left Behind" conference with Tim Lahaye.  Anyhow one of the speakers got up and talked about our run down broken bodies talking to a mostly older audience. 

He spoke about how  some of us have extra parts like knee replacements, false teeth, pacemakers, etc to make our bodies work.  He then related the story about how Lahaye wrote in all his books about the clothes we leave behind when God takes us up.  All that will be left will be the stuff we won't need for the next life.  He spoke about how we are going to receive new glorified bodies and how our old parts will be restored. 

Some of us will have a bigger pile left behind than others. 

When we get right with ourselves the baggage takes on a lighter load.

This does get a bit better with age, but like you said, old habits die hard. We definitely have to keep talking to the younger girls, and boys too!

If it means anything I think you are beautiful.

I've always felt like if someone doesn't like the way I look they can just not look at me.

Oh yes! The process does get better the older we become, most of the time!lol!  Looking for the good thing, those traits you mentioned, always a good thing too! Nice to see you Trudy!

Amen to that!  So many of us forget this,  It is the here and now and not what is in the future that we sometimes forget to think about.

Agreed Elie!

Old habits do die hard for sure!  Thanks beautiful lady! And yes, children are so impressionable it is good to let them know how beautiful they are!

Oh yes, that would be the best thing!

Well said.  I agree completely.

A question, though: what do you mean when you say 'dress your age'?  I'm not quite sure.  I've always worn jeans, hightops and tshirts.  My nephews and nieces dress similarly but I'm not going to change my ways just because someone thinks it might not be age-appropriate.  I think this is a very grey area.

LoL! yes, a very grey area! LOL!  I meants that thee are some people out there, particularly us women who dress to go with the trends of the time and their choice of clothing is either too young because it is too short, or too tight or ill fitted.  There's nothing wrong with short skirts of course, especially if you've got great legs! I like to see older women if they have great legs in a nice skirt that shows them off, but not when it is shorts that are so short and tight they leave nothing to the imagination or the skirt so short you see their bum hanging!  Leave that to the young uns! [and even then, that's just bad!]