I have always loved fashion, style and beauty. It’s a fun, very girly and feminine thing to do. Something that is perfectly healthy and normal if your a girl. This is something you should do, I beleive, if you are a Christain young lady. Too often Christian young women find it wrong to be stylish or look beautiful or enjoy fixing up. I beleive this is a wrong way to think! Beauty is something God given. See our Bible heroine Esther ( though I don’t recommend spending, what was it 12 months? in a row just on your personal appearance, as she did ) she was beautiful and God used her mightily because of it!

Recently my sister Hannah found a cute book at Borders that she showed me, knowing I would also love it. (Thanks Hannah) It’s called “The Little Black Book Of Style” by Nina Garcia. It’s really a cute book and I love reading it. I think it’s good to be as stylish as we can as Christian young women. We of all people should know how to be stylish in the right way. I actually would like to write more about this subject a little later. Based on a question I recieved from a girl thinking about all of this. Coming soon. Anyway!…

My style is that I love unique things. Realizing that this IS your style. The things that you really like are the things that set you apart and make you kind of your very own person. Of course, some people need more help with seeing fashion then others. But I like this rule that if you like it and others say “That looks like you” then this is your unique style!

For me. When I am shopping with my sister’s (one of the coolest things you can do, by the way) they will often see something with ruffles, tapers to the waist, gathers, and say “Holly, this looks like you”. Usually, they are right! It’s my style! I beleive we all have our own style.

Style Tips from “The Little Black Book Of Style”

- You can never have enough high heels. (I like this one)

- Wear your size. (When I realized this it was like night and day! A lot of times I don’t need to wear a size Medium just for the sake of “modesty” that wasn’t modesty that was frumpy and frumpy isn’t holy! Ok? OK … moving on … I can fit a size small and still be modest and look like a woman. Yeah! There may be a time, God forbid, that I can’t wear a small I need to enjoy it now!)

One of the quotes in the book I like. She was talking about not always going with the flow. To be fashionable we need to do our own thing. Be our own person. I like this. Yet at the same time, I beleive we shouldn’t purposefully go against things that are in style just for the sake of oddly sticking out.

Here is the quote:

“Only dead fish swim with the steam” - Malcolm Muggeridge

So in other words, do your own thing! Make your own style. When people see something unique in the mall or in the store they say your name. That is YOU! So be stylish, have fun! Find your own way. Let me tell you it can be a challenge to find beautifully stylish things that are modest and honorJesus. I am not expert and never claim to be. But, IT CAN BE DONE. Yes it can.

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With the start of a brand New Year I would like to start a small serious on feminine-ness! (that’s my own word) I believe that true feminine-ness is true beauty. There is such a need today for real women (and men but we won’t go there right now). I hope this series will help you really think Biblically about who God has created you to be. We will start with one of the most importnant parts of femininess though outward femininity is so very important as well.

A Spirit of Femininity
Here I will list the topics that we will be going over in the next few weeks~

1. Submissive & Strong
2. Gentle & Bold
3. A Quiet Spirit –Trusting & Humble
4. The Law of Kindness – Gracious & Loving

Submissive & Strong

There was once a beautiful woman. She was truly beautiful on the inside and on the outside. She was a strong woman. She was very loving yet she had to be unyielding because she had such a strong loyalty and love. She was a Queen her name was Esther.

Outward femininity is extremely important. Yet, the topic of femininity definitely gets a little deeper and more complex when we talk about having a spirit of femininity on the inside. Yet this is what Jesus talks about and what is “in His sight of great price”.

It’s vital that we learn one of the most important aspects of femininity and that is to be submissive right now to the authorities in our lives.

When and if the Lord has you marry one day it will be the key to unlocking the heart of what God intended marriage to be. If you don’t have this under Christ’s control it would be best to not get married until you do. If you can’t be obedient to your parent’s wishes now you will have major problems in marriage later. Being submissive to our authorities is God’s idea. We also see here in God’s Word that we do it in the Lord and as unto the Lord.

We also need to see the need for strong woman who will stand up against the tide of really rather weak women in today’s world. The definition of the word “Strong” is: decisively unyielding; firm or un compromising. It doesn’t take that much effort or a very strong woman to give in to her own way and to be strong willed. Yet it takes a very strong woman to take her own natural inclinations in hand and submit to her authority. Any woman can naturally be independent, strong willed and disobedient to her authorities but it takes a strong woman in the Lord to go beyond this and lovingly submit with a gracious spirit.

Hannah in the Bible is a good modal of strength in a beautiful way. You really should read about her in 1 Sam. 1 & 2 if you haven’t recently. She wanted a baby. She wanted to be a mother. She fasted, prayed and wept for God’s blessing. She was strong yet she was submissive to God’s will for her life. I love it that she didn’t give up! Her submission to the Lord was shown when she made a vow to God that if He would grant her desires and give her a baby she would give it right back to Him (1 Sam.1:11). Women who won’t give up, women who are strong “decisively unyielding, firm and uncompromising” this is what a weak world needs. Who actually do believe in something!

If you’re single it’s important that you have a clear understanding and biblical basis for femininity. You will be questioned, yes you will. You also may need to have sound advice for your married friends.

It is very important to realize before you get married that this is the man you will submit to. This is the man that you will be under and who will lead. It’s pretty important to think of questions as you go into marriage. Is this the kind of man that I would want to be obedient to and be under his authority and direction for life? Will he be a loving listener? (Of course this is something your mom and dad would be able to figure a lot better than you when your emotions are involved)

Don’t you see this is something that reaches not to just our outward selves but deeply into who we are? It will affect our future as well as the present. This is something that is if not declining almost totally lost in our day. We, as Christian woman, need to gain back and keep a standard of femininity that is pleasing to the Lord.

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I have recently started a little newsletter I will be sending every week for young ladies. I am excited about helping to encourage others in this beautiful journey we are all on -loving Jesus more and more. So by these simple thoughts of mine I hope that it will encourage you. Also I will be adding little bios of great woman of the Faith and also little tips and things all girls enjoy!! I hope that I hear from you! My prayer is to encourage as many girls as I can as we all continue on this beautiful walk of “Faith & Hope”…

If you would like to get this little newsletter every week I would love to put you on my list! Just email me here~ hollypierpont@gmail.com

Here is one I sent last week -
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* Thank you for the comments on “Being A Girl”. “Created To Be A Woman” was written with you in mind.*

Being a girl what a beautiful, wonderful creation of God! Yet, what potential for ugliness when we reject in any small way what and who God created us to be as females. (Gen. 1:27)

I love the book by Elizabeth Elliot “Let Me Be A Woman” She is a smart woman with sense and a beautiful, biblical display of femininity. I strongly suggest every young lady read that book. I am so glad to be in such good company when it comes to this topic. She is a real woman of God.

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My Mom taught me when I was just a young girl that I should always act like a lady. I am so thankful that she did. I notice that some women feel the need to encourage their daughter’s to act just like a boy. They encourage and even act like it’s cute when their girls will self proclaim, “I’m a Tom Boy”.

When we reject God’s plan for our lives even in what seems small and “cute” ways, we become ugly inside and out, fast.

My Mom taught me to enjoy being in the house and around the home. I remember a time when I was really young that I wanted to go out in the barnyard to just be with the guys. They were working on machinery or something in the yard. I was ready to run out the door when Mom made sure I came back. She said, “Holly, you stay inside with me, that’s a job for the men”. She did this a couple of times that I can remember. It made me realize that there is a difference in men and women a wonderful, awesome and beautiful difference.

I was never bent on being like the guys. I never ever thought about being anything but the girl I was made to be. But I needed to be taught what a beautiful thing it is to be a woman in everyway. I needed to be shown and my Mother was my example.

I am so thankful that my Mother encouraged me to be a woman. She encouraged me and my sister’s to dress, talk and act like women. These qualities are almost totally lost today. Women need to be who God created them to be, love it and live under the beauty of submission to it.

Since my Mother taught me at an early age to be a woman in every way I am happy and embrace and love the woman God made me to be. And I cannot imagine it any other way.

So if your a girl be a girl! Do girlish things…throw like a girl…enjoy and love the girl God made you to be. He did it for a reason.

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“The Winter Gathering” is now over and it went amazingly well. I was totally amazed that we ended up having 175-200 girls and mom’s throughout the course of the weekend. I am so glad the whole weekend went so completely wonderfully, I was happy.

I was able to lead the music and speak and just share my heart on some important things. It was very good for me. I learned a lot. I spoke on “Are You Fully Consecrated?” & “A Heart For Home”

The Gathering once again was a very beautiful thing. I have already had so much good feedback from the ladies and Mom’s that came and I keep thinking of the verse:

Ephesians 3:20 “Now unto Him that is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we could ask or think…” and that is what He did this past weekend.

For Pictures of “The Winter Gathering” go to my Mother’s site - www.xanga.com/loispics

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Girls, here is a neat little story that happened to me and I just felt like God was giving me a hug of encouragement! I love it when He does that and I want it to encourage you too. He does care about us looking modest yet being attractive….

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Modesty Is Beautiful!
I was in the store just the other day doing what I absolutely LOVE to do — Shopping J. I saw this shirt hanging up on the wall and thought I kinda liked, it was on sale too that’s a plus. So I just went to try it on.

When I tried it on I loved it!!! It was definitely my color with sequins and……. it was just beautiful! I really wanted it now.

THEN my Mom gave me that look and I knew what she was thinking. She thought it was too tight. I was disappointed. She went to get a bigger size and I tried it on. I hated the large size it looked sloppy and not cute at all. I looked at me reflection and thought “Yep, this is what modest looks like…ugly”.

I then left the dressing room to find a bigger size. I looked all over and couldn’t find a medium size. But I did see another large.

My very first instinct was to buy the small anyway. I personally didn’t have a problem with it. But……..as I stood there I KNEW what I was to do — obey. Sometimes it’s hard to just obey. But I resigned to hang it back up and leave and try to find something else I liked. I really loved this shirt, a lot too. But I was ready to put it back.

As I made my way back to hang it up disappointed, I looked up and right there was the very size I needed!!

I had looked twice. Mom looked then I looked. I then realized there must have been a lady in the dressing room that didn’t want it and put it back just in time as I walked back to return my other shirt.

I tried it on and it was absolutely perfect. Fitting, stylish, pretty, my color, my size and most of all modest. I even liked this one more it was even prettier, I thought. I bought it. And I had to think while paying “He does care! He does love me! And He makes my life truly BEAUTIFUL!!!”

See modesty is beautiful and He always makes a way to do just that and be beautiful for Him. I have so many stories of Him doing this very thing over and over for me.

Thanks to my parent’s for keeping me accountable, always.

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Introducing - Feminine Beauty

Femininity - it’s a beautiful art. True femininity is like a rare exotic flower, surprising and beautiful to the eye.

God created women to be feminine and that’s a fact. True beauty is feminine beauty. God designed men to be attracted to feminine woman (in most cases).

Femininity is something we have almost lost today among women. Yet femininity only increases it’s beauty like a fragrant rose among rough thorns.

The picture of an elegant feminine bride on her day comes to my mind to illustrate what I want to say. What makes her so very, very beautiful to see? It is her distinct feminine beauty. It is also his distinct masculinity together a beautiful picture, God’s plan.

This is just a beginning of what I want to share on the topic of femininity. Ladies we need to hear today what it looks like for us to be truly feminine and proud of who God created and designed us to be. He created us to be beautiful women. And the only way to have this beauty is to do things His perfect way…

For pictures of our trip to Grand Haven go to my site
www.xanga.com/holly_pierpont

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Here are the girls. With some good friends Angie Brown and Tracie Brown.

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A Basic Fact: A Christian Young Lady desires inward beauty. She want’s to glorify Christ, not herself.
I saw a girl. I thought she was pretty. Then I started to read what she wrote on her blog. I looked at what she wore. I saw she called a girl very dear to me one of the filthiest words you can say for no reason at all. I all of the sudden didn’t think she was cute anymore. Ladies, inward beauty is so very important.

A Basic Fact: A Christian young lady obeys her parents.
If you can’t do what your parents say, you can’t obey God.

Like Ester in the Bible was under her authorities we have a responsibility to be under our parents authority. It is not easy. But it is what the Bible commands. Ephesians 6:1 “Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right”

I seem to have this discussion come up often. People want to debate whether they should obey or not. They say well I am not a child anymore or my parents are not kind and loving to me. The real question then is: Do you believe in obeying God?

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