More Than Skin Deep by Crystal Kirgiss

Author:Crystal Kirgiss [Kirgiss, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-310-39862-2
Publisher: Zondervan/boyd
Published: 2011-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

Going More than Skin Deep:

1. What’s one new thing you learned about yourself after going through the ten steps?

2. How will knowing that new thing change how you think about yourself?

3. You take God’s breath away … How does that make you feel?

PAUSE:

Now that we’ve talked about skin versus Skin, the Skin crisis, and some questions worth asking and answering, it’s time to look at some practical and specific ways you can start living a full, joyful, and meaningful life, even if you’re in the middle of a Skin crisis.

Some of you probably hoped this book would tell you how to end a Skin crisis or how to fix it. But honestly, a Skin crisis is one of those things that can’t be solved, fixed, or eliminated. Usually it’s something that needs to be lived through, dealt with, and navigated.

Jesus never promised that our lives would be crisis-free. He never promised that life would be easy. He never promised that life would be smooth sailing. In fact, just the opposite is true. He said that in this life you’ll have troubles, problems, challenges, heartaches, and despair. Some are going to be more superficial (one girl I know is having a crisis because she can’t choose between two good colleges) and some are going to be even deeper than Skin deep (one girl who helped with this book is, at this very minute as I write these words, by her mom’s bedside at the hospital, watching her die from cancer).

That’s the way life is. But if you’re a Jesus follower, you don’t have to go through troubles, problems, challenges, heartaches, and despair — and a Skin crisis — alone. Jesus is right there with you, walking alongside you, holding your hand tightly, even if it doesn’t seem like it.

So the next few chapters are going to give you some ideas about how to step out boldly and courageously, even if you feel wallflowerish and afraid. We’re going to look at our culture’s top four “answers” to a skin crisis — beauty, fashion, shoes, and boyfriends — and turn them upside-down to reveal some genuine ways to deal with a Skin crisis. Beauty, fashion, shoes, and boyfriends (or romance) are the most advertised, most photographed, most talked-about, and most written-about things in popular magazines and television ads and other kinds of media. The message is, “If you are only beautiful enough, wear the right fashions, own enough shoes, and have an awesome boyfriend, then YOU WILL BE HAPPY AND LIFE WILL BE PERFECT!”

To which I say — bah. Feh. Baloney. Pshaw. Nonsense. Hokum. Bunkum. Rubbish. Pish posh. Hoo hah snit snot. No way.

Read on to find out why.

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