subject: God Gave You Your Body For A Reason [print this page] Let me say a word to parentsLet me say a word to parents. Parents, we have to get our heads out of the sands of denial. We have to wake up and smell the Starbucks here. We have to check out our children and watch them. When they see these unrealistic pictures on Vogue and Cosmopolitan, (they don"t need to read any of those magazines), or Seventeen, (these magazines are jokes. Don"t read them. They are trash), you need to say, "That is not the real world. God gave you your bone structure. God gave you your muscles. God gave you your body for a reason. Do the best with it that you can, and you are beautiful." Take your eyes off the world. Put them on God. Because the world always says, "You have to look like this. You can"t look like this. You have got to change here. You have got to tweak this."
God says, "You are beautiful."
Your body has got to be an act of worship. It"s been my prayer that so many women here would get a grasp on that, because these images are totally ridiculous. Parents, we have got to take charge and be into this. The problem with so many parents is, we are so into the looks stuff, Hollywood stuff and media stuff, that our children see that with us. And we are messing them up. We are causing a lot of this. If you deal with bulimia or anorexia, please tell your parents, tell your pastors, tell a counselor about it. Healing is just one confession away for many people here.
Ed Young first cousin struggled with bulimia and anorexia for many years. She has come through it and now she is doing very well. She told me a while back, "Ed, people who don"t eat right, people who suffer with bulimia and anorexia, they don"t think right. It affects you spiritually, emotionally, in every way under the sun."
We all know the story of Karen Carpenter and many others. So, I wanted to address eating disorders in kind of a sideboard type scenario as I am going through this.
