The Ally Blog: Choice and Accountability; Modest is Hottest

Choice and Accountability

Modesty~10 hour Personal Progress Project~ By: Ally Mills

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I will choose

GOOD OVER EVIL

and will accept

RESPONSIBILITY

for my decisions

Joshua 24:15

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DRESS AND APPEARANCE~FOR THE STRENGTH OF YOUTH

In For the Strength of Youth pamphlet, the section, Dress and Appearance, it says that if you dress modestly you can show that you are a disciple of God. For us women and young women it is especially hard. We want to stay up with the latest trend or to look "hot", or you just can't find anything that is modest (the most used excuse for women today). I know that it is really hard to find cute and trendy clothes that are modest, from personal experience. But if you try and try and try again you are truly showing that you are a disciple of God. Most people, when they dress immodestly are trying to get attention. Now this doesn't help anyone. It doesn't help the young men. Us young women. And it doesn't help yourself. It makes you feel like people only want you for how good you look or how pretty you are. And no one wants that. Some people think that it will make people like you better. Especially boys. But if you do that, the only boys that you are going to attract are not the upstanding and righteous boys we want around us and in our lives.

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MODEST IS HOTTEST
We want to stand out and be noticed. But how is that possible when you're skirt goes down to your knees or lower, instead of high up on your thighs? Or the top of your dress or shirt isn't a couple inches lower? We do stand out. Everyone has high skirts and low shirts. We stand out! We look different. And you know what? It's okay! I do not hesitate to say that you can look attractive with out being immodest! MODEST IS HOTTEST! And I mean it.
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COMMANDMENT NOT A RULE
Some of us women and young women try to bend modesty to be closer to what the world defines beauty as. This is wrong. We all know this. Modesty is there so that we can keep ourselves worthy for blessings, it is also there to help us resist temptation, and it is a commandment. A commandment is a promise not a rule. It's your choice whether or not you follow it, and keep your promise with God.
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MIRRORS~THE TRUTH
How long have we told ourselves that mirrors tell the truth about who we are and what we are worth? We have all been or have been doing this for TOO LONG! We need to STOP IT! All our lives we have been told by the world that we need to look good on the outside. But what about who you are on the inside, where it matters the most. We spend TOO much time in front of the mirror. Many of my friends say that they are not beautiful. LADIES!!! LYING IS A SIN!!! It is time for everyone to realize that they are beautiful and I'm not just talking about the outside.
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OUR OWN ENEMY
When others criticize is we are told to let it roll off our backs and sometimes it works. But what about when you are the one criticizing yourself? What do you do? Please apply the following: STOP IT! We already have enough critics in this world. Why add one more? The most effecting one of all. We look at ourselves and don't like what we see. Let me ask. What is it doing for you? Nothing. What is it doing to you? Making you hate yourself and lowering your self esteem. Embrace who you are AND what you look like. You have beauty beyond compare. Believe it yourself. I know everyone knows it. But do you know it? Comparing yourself to others is as pointless as counting the blades of grass in your neighbors yard. Comparing yourself to others gets you nowhere. What matters is on the inside. That's where your beauty lies. You beauty is also on the outside. Maybe you just haven't noticed it yet.
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IN HIS EYES
Heavenly Father loves us for who we are. Flaws and all. Not for what we look like. What we wear or what our makeup looks like. He is so proud when we wear modest clothing and stay upstanding righteous women and young women. He is even more proud of us when we accept who we are and how beautiful we already are. When we falter or slip us He is there with open arms to help you get back on the right path, of the word of wisdom and modesty. He will never give up on you and will always be there for us.
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I NEED MY MAKEUP
I understand that is is fun to wear makeup and to dress up. But TOO MANY women and young women think they need their makeup and jewelry to make them shine and stand out and to look pretty or "hot". YOU DON'T NEED IT! At my school we have an "opening camp" on the second week of school. My friend form school was constantly fretting about if she looked good. She would ask my other friends and I if she looked good or if she needed to fix her hair.
One morning she comes up to me. Something obviously making her upset. So I asked her what the matter was. These were her exact words. "I need my makeup" She was frantic. My other friend and I tried to explain to her that she doesn't need makeup and that she looks beautiful without it.
She didn't listen I know this isn't a problem with my friend. IT is a problem with all of us. Even me. Sometimes I forget that I don't need worldly things to make me beautiful even though God made me perfectly. I am already beautiful. I am a Daughter of God. You are a Daughter of God. NEVER FORGET THIS!
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YOU
If you try to change yourself to look and act like everyone else. How can you be in the "large and spacious building" and not there at the same time? You can't. You'll have to choose. To: Dress modestly, staying righteous and attracting the right kind of guys into your life. Or: Dress immodestly, not keeping the word of wisdom, and attracting the wrong kind of guys.
We stand out and you don't need a shorter skirt or lower shirt to emphasize that or to try to stand out when you stand out more and in a better way than when you are dressing immodestly. Rather than dressing modestly.
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