Day 2

"We must be swift as the coursing river,
With all the force of a great typhoon,
With all the strength of a raging fire,
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon."
I'll Make A Man Out Of You From Disney's Mulan

Mulan was on Disney channel yesterday when I was home, and seeing as it is my favorite Disney movie, I of course dropped everything I was doing and settled in to watch it. I had forgotten about the song above being in the movie, but started singing along once I recognized it. In listening to the song, I was thinking 'Wow, they have such high expectations for their soldiers, to be told that you must be as strong as a raging fire is an intimidating thought!' Obviously it's a fictional movie, but it got me thinking, and when I start thinking, I usually don't stop. So then I thought about what our society today expects of us. It's not a hard image to conjure up, at least not for a teenage girl. Tall, thin, long hair, tan skin, and pretty, with expensive clothes. You should be stellar at something, be it sports or academics. And then I thought wow, I'm none of those things, but it didn't bother me so much because I know that God doesn't have those kind of standards. He doesn't care if you're thick or thin, tall or short, tan or albino! He made you as you are for some reason, whether it be known or not, and he loves you that way! Isn't our God wonderful?!

Mel