Why I’m Joining “Modest Fashion Week”

I’ve decided to follow/participate in the Modest Fashion Week series hosted by Joy @ The Stay-At-Home Missionary. I  stumbled onto this blog last week and I don’t believe it was by accident.  I believe there is a reason.

I think I’ve always been pretty modest in the way I dress.  Not only do I have my mom to thank for that (oh I can still  hear her voice in my head when I put something on that maybe a bit too tight or too short – lol)  but I also thank my older Christian girlfriends that I had when I was at High School. I became a Christian back in high school and you all know the pressures one goes through,  but I had such wonderful God-fearing and loving friends that not only did they make sure that I read my bible and prayed everyday,  but that I also dressed modestly and appropriately.  I didn’t always like being rebuked and having to change my clothes but today,  I am thankful for it.  I’m thankful for the grace and love that was shown to me as a young Christian. 

Because “modesty” is interpreted in so many different ways,  it is for me like beauty  - in the eye of the beholder.  Now as a mother of 2 girls I try to be careful with the way I dress.  I may put something on in the morning and think it’s “modest”, I feel comfortable (which is always important to me) and go out the door.  Now someone else might think oh my what is she wearing or thinking ??!!  That’s why I think that it is in the eye of the beholder. 

So when I read the post from Joy’s guest post’er Sheri @ Purely His I have to totally agree with her 100% that modesty is an issue of the heart.  My heart. No one else’s but mine.  It is the intent, the motive as to why I might pick this shirt over that, or these pair of jeans and not the other!  Like all things,  it is our heart that is at the crux of it.   And as Christians when doing things God’s way it is always a matter of the heart.

So my neighbor or those I come in contact with throughout my day might raise their eye brows to the way I’m dressed but I need to be more worried about what Jesus would think.  Is He going to raise his eye brows too and say “my daughter what are you thinking, what are you doing?

I want to start over.  I’m repenting.  I want to learn.  To learn from my other God fearing and loving sister’s in Christ as I go through this series with an open heart and mind. 

Proverbs 4:23 (The Message)

Keep vigilant watch over your heart;
   that's where life starts.