Tag: innocent

In this age of early sexualization, lookism, perfectionism, and materialism, it’s easy to worry about how our daughters can stand up to all the unhealthy messages and conditioning rampant in the culture. There are four types of girls that seem to cause us to lay awake at night the most, so let’s meet them and see if we can reframe how we look at them.

1. My daughter is so sweet, naive, and innocent that I am afraid she will be eaten alive in middle school and beyond.

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." ~ Aldous Huxley

I am not proud of the moments when something cracks in me and I become someone I hardly recognize. The times when a powerful storm lets loose inside me without warning, remaining stubbornly unpredictable.

The triggers are complex; rarely can I trace them to some direct input. Rather they are reflections of the internal conflicts, which more often than not go unnamed and unattended. They are the invisible cracks in our own heart that control us in ways that are potentially damaging precisely because they are invisible.