Good Morning (in all the ways at once I suppose:))

[Sarah Hoven]

@rebelutoinary I looked it up, and you’re right, the conference is only half an hour away, so we wouldn’t have to pay for a hotel. Maybe this will be possible after all. I’ll pray about it, and ask our youth pastor about it on Wednesday hopefully. Now I’m feeling excited. 🙂 Thank you for pointing that out; I hadn’t realized we were so close. Oh, I truly hope we can go!
The hard thing about modesty is, a lot of girls honestly think they dress modestly, they just have different standards of what “modest” means. Our youth group did a message on modesty a while back, and the discussion afterwards was very eye-opening, as I listened to one of my friends who tends to wear less than more clothes talk about modesty. Her definition is very different from mine, but compared to her friends at public school, she does dress modestly. She’s not trying to be inappropriate, she’s just grown up in a different world than I have. I don’t know what to say in situations like that. Having a clearer understanding of why I believe what I believe would help, though. Perhaps if girls understood how difficult they make it for young men, they would be more careful about it.
Isn’t God’s Smuggler about Brother Andrew? I haven’t read it, but I’ve read other books about/ by him.

[Anne of Lothlorien]

Welcome to the bestiestiest place ever! *excited waves because there’s one more person whose posts I will probably miss and lose track of*

I love your title. Get it.
My family and I are right in the middle of the last Wingfeather book so no spoilers! WE love them! Janner and Kalmar are trying to bargain with the Fangs with the Stone in the cage-elavator thing right after the voom. And Leeli is about to meet Gnag. That’s where we left off.
I’ve read Do Hard Things! My brother owns it. And I shall probably look into Before You Meet Prince Charming. I’m fourteen so I haven’t gotten into the guy-relationship thing, but I don’t know any other guys but family and church friends, and those at church pretty much share the same beliefs.

ENFP - "One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."

[Anne of Lothlorien]

So that will be a good thing when I do get old enough for all that confusing stuff.
So do you have any books that you are writing currently?

ENFP - "One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."

[Grace W.]

@sarah-h That would be so cool if you get to go! I will be praying, keep me posted! The conferences are so challenging and encouraging.

Yes, Modesty is hard that way. And even for the individual person, standards change… sometimes good sometimes bad. For example, swimwear when I lived in Florida was very different from the state of Washington. In one many more things were looked on a modest than they would be in Washington who isn’t a sandy beach state. It is such a confusing puzzle for ourselves, let alone trying to help others in it! TheRebelution.com did a survey a few years ago, actually asking Christian boys what they struggled most with in how girls dress. Unfortunately, it was seen as guys just listing a bunch of rules for girls and they took it down. But you can still find some of it on some blogs.

Yep, God’s Smuggler is about/by Brother Andrew.

@anne-of-lothlorien I am glad you got it! 🙂 Lothlorien is one of my favorite places in Middle Earth… though Rivendell is pretty cool too…

Okay, I won’t ruin anything, except that you are getting to the best part in the whole series, the part that seals the deal of endearment for everyone who reads the Wingfeather Saga. I sho9uld read that series again, come to think of it. Who is your favorite character? Mine is Sarah Cobbler or Artham…. can I just choose both?! 😀

I would definitely recommend reading Before You Meet Prince charming, well, before you meet prince charming. 🙂 It is good to know where you stand before you have to tackle the challenge. I am the same way, I haven’t known many guys outside church and such, which has been a blessing as there have been ones that do share the same standards, or at least understand my standards and why I have them.

I am not currently writing any books, just lots of articles for a magazine and for various blogs. Most of my writing other than that has been editing and giving feedback for various friend’s books. My sister’s primarily. What about you?

[Sarah Hoven]

@Rebelutoinary I will! 🙂 Thank you for telling me about Bright Lights; I am very excited.
Swimwear is what I struggle most with, too. I confuse myself sometimes, because my standards for regular clothing and my standards for swimwear are very different, and I wonder if that’s okay. Like, I would never wear short shorts regularly, but I do swimming. I’ve given up trying to find modest swimsuits. I’m sure they exist, I just can’t find them. So lately I’ve taken to wearing athletic clothes swimming instead. That must have been an interesting survey!

[Grace W.]

@sarah-h I am excited for you! I wish I could go, but my family has plans that weekend. I end up doing the same thing with swimwear. And I don’t have an answer! In Florida though the struggle to find a ‘modest’ swimsuit was extremely hard, we finally found some places online to buy some (Athleta, and Title Nine), when we got to Washington, suddenly what had been really modest by Florida standards made me feel naked on Washington beaches, where I switched to athletic clothes. …:D I haven’t figured Arizona out yet.

[Sarah Hoven]

@Rebelutoinary I checked out the Rebelution website. I guess I have to read the book in order for it to make sense? I was a little confused. Maybe I’m missing something….or maybe I should find the book, read it, and then try again. Arizona…*cough* think Florida. Very much like Florida. At least around where I live. 🙂 (I lived in Florida for a few years a while back.) Athleta and Title Nine- I’ll remember those next time Mommy wants to try to find me one. Thanks. 🙂 Oh, we did find one online store -Simply Modest, I think- that has some really good ones, but they are expensive.

@anne-of-lothlorien I was fourteen when I read Before You Meet Prince Charming. I think it’s meant to be read before that stage of your life, so that when it happens you already have a foundation.

[ClaireC]

As always, I am far too late, but my Internet’s been out. 🙁
Welcome @rebelutoinary! sounds like you’ve lived in a similar number of places to me! 🙂

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[Grace W.]

@sarah-h You don’t have to read the book I don’t think (although it;s a great read!). The ‘rebelution’ is this: teenagers rebelling against low expectations. So many teenagers are simply lazy, our generation hates responsibility, and we have in in our minds that the teen years are a time to have fun and goof off… but really they can be such a powerful and effective time in our lives that God can use in huge ways! ..At least that’s the summary. 😀

I have heard of Simply Modest, I will have to keep that in mind!

@clairec Thank you! Why is your internet out? Really? So what places have we both been? 😉

[Sarah Hoven]

@clairec I’m so glad you’re back! @bluejay and I were starting to worry about you. 🙂

@rebelutoinary I asked our youth pastor about the conference tonight, and HE SAID YES!!! I’m so excited I can’t sleep (it’s 1:14 a.m.) Thank you so much for introducing me to this whole thing. I know the impact that Sarah Mally has had on my life, and I’m so excited that my girls will have a similar opportunity. Yaaaay!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

[Grace W.]

@sarah-h Yay!!! I am so happy and excited for you all!!!! That’s so wonderful!

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[ClaireC]

@rebelutionary, well, I don’t think we’ve been to the same places, but probably a similar number. I’ve been traveling since I was one week old, and lived or visited across the globe. God created an incredible planet! I’m very thankful for the opportunities He’s given me over the course of my life. 🙂 By the way, despite the fact that I live in Australia, I have also lived in America! 🙂 (Yes I know, @bluejay, *gasp!* you’re probably wondering if I’m full or only half Aussie. Well the answer is… You can go guess at my latest post in ‘New Game!’)

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[Greta]

@rebulutoinary
Some of my favorite books are Lord of the Rings, the Harry Potter series, the Inheritance Cycle, the Percy Jackson series, To Kill A Mockingbird, and The Giver. I’m probably forgetting some…oh and the Wingfeather Saga. 🙂 I’m a big fantasy fan, if you can’t tell. 😉

[Greta]

Sorry, got the tag wrong. @rebelutoinary

[ClaireC]

Ahh, @gretald, Me too! 🙂 @rebelutoinary

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