Why I LOVE Younger Women

My heart gets sad...sad I tell ya when I think about older women not having younger women in their lives.

I know...I'm well aware I'm THAT lady...the one who won't stop talking about mentoring...blah, blah, blah.

Sorry.

It's just...it's wonderful to obey the Lord and train younger women.

We're supposed to do that. At first, I thought opening up my life to younger women would be a pain. What was wrong with me? Now...I see how this is just another area I was deceived. God wasn't being mean to me, asking me to mentor younger women. He was wanting good for me, and I was afraid to trust Him. Silly me.

Sure...college girls can be really goofy about a lot of things. I've said many times to girls in my life..."What the heck is wrong with you?" BUT they are also really smart about a lot of things and challenge me like nobody's business.

They have questions about everything...which translates into there not being many areas in my life that I haven't had to question.

Good stuff comes from having your life analyzed by sweet college eyes, and therefore doing some soul searching of your own heart and life.

I live much more purposefully because of these younger girls.

So...that's why I love them spiritually.

It kills me...and I mean that...when I hear people talk about college students like they are annoying. One time, one of my FAVORITE pastors I listen to online said something like..."Come to the Sunday morning service. There are no college students there. It's great."

What?

If we said that about any other group in the church, we'd be in serious trouble. Can you imagine...

"Come to the Saturday night service...there aren't any dumb people there."

I had to work really hard to move past that and still love listening to that guy teach. It only took like a minute to move on, since he's pretty funny and I learn a lot when he speaks.

Alright...I'll quit meddlin'.

All that to say...we LOVE college students. As a couple, we look more like Jesus because of them.

Spiritual stuff aside...

One of the other reasons I love, love, in a MAJOR way adore college girls is...

They are just so dang cool.

They know how to dress.

They know what to do with jewelry and bags and scarves.

And they can do all this on a tight budget. These are my kind of women. They can TJ Max, Ross and Thrift Store it up...just get out of their way. They aint afraid to dig in piles of clothes to find a treasure.

The Christian college girls in my life know how to look fabulous and still honor God with their clothing.

I love it.

They also know how to do incredible things with their hair.

They know how to do all the neat do's.

They know about hair products.

If you have a problem with your hair...have no fear...they have a hair product to fix it.

Many people are so quick to accept hair "issues."

What?

Don't do that!

Ask a college girl. There is NO hair problem they can't fix with a product from Walgreens.

Recently...I watched Kirby do the coolest thing with her hair.

She made it curly with her Chi.

Who knew.

I know Kirby isn't in college...but she became a permanent fixture in my life when she was in school, and now she has college girls in her life who teach her to do rock-star stuff with her hair.

I went home and tried what I saw Kirby doing.

I couldn't do it.

It was awful.

So, I stuck my chi in my purse. The next time I saw her, we were at a get together at someone's house.

I shoved her in the bathroom with me, and she taught me, letting me practice until I got it right.

I know this beautiful display of older and younger women coming together to learn from each other is probably making tears run down your face right now. :)

Isn't this every woman's dream?

Young women want to learn from older women how to pursue purity, holiness, be self controlled, love the Lord and their families...and well...

Older women want to learn how to stop looking stupid.

Younger women have taught me so many things...some of them I can't even talk about on this blog. They can only be talked about in private, but those things have revolutionized my life!

Another thing I did recently was make Ashlyn teach me how to wad my hair all crazy like on the top of my head.

Have you seen this look?

It's great.

She explained it to me.

She did it with my hair.

But then she went home.

I tried it myself this morning and well...

I'm close.

Close.

But not there.

So I emailed Katie Tucker this morning...one of the college girls who has that crazy cool hair wad thing down.

I'm going to get her to come over and show me how to do it ASAP.

I'm not going to let her leave until I can do it myself...perfectly messy and wonderful.

I also emailed another girl named Rebekah. She goes to my church, but I don't think she even knows me. I don't care! She has curly hair, and she does this brilliant thing with pins. She can do magic with bobby pins. I must learn how to do this. I must.

And so all this learning has inspired me.

What else do I want to know how to do?

I'm going to make a list.

And then, I'm going to ask people who know how to do those things to teach me how to do them.

Why haven't I thought of this before?

Why haven't I done this before?

Probably because as women we are awfully prideful. We don't want to admit we stink at some things and...that girl over there...she's a super hero...I hate her...but I want to be like her. Women are so weird, huh?

Well...I'm sick of that.

This isn't a competition. We're in this together. We need to learn from each other how to love God, love our children, love our husbands, be disciplined...and I also want to learn how to fix my hair like people on TV and know the fashion must haves this season...and know what hair product to buy from Walgreens to make my hair have some body, or quit frizzing...and I want to know how to use bobby pins (right now I don't know how to...I'm bobby pin stupid). I also want to know how to CVS, how to make a header like Kendra's, how to have smoky eyes and how to wear jewelry.

I'm starting with the hair.

I'm begging these girls to come over and getting them to show me how to put my hair on the top of my head AND pin it all whispy blowy. The best thing about all of these new styles is...

Your hair can be a disaster, and you can quickly do something to fix that!

This is one thing college women and moms have in common...there are times when we don't have a lot of time to make ourselves look good. Most of the time, I don't have time because I have a household of children running around trying to stick their tongues to frozen poles. College girls need to do their hair fast usually because they stayed up too late talking to their roommates, or chose sleep over beauty. Either way...they have found a way to survive, and they can share their brilliance with me!

Want to learn how to do the chi curly thing? I'll show you how!

You can do it if your hair is curly.

Or if your hair is straight!

Want to know how to do the messy hair on the top of your head look? I'll let you know when Katie agrees to come show me. She also knows how to do this great bang swoop...I want to know how to do that too.

How cute is she?

I stole this picture off her facebook page. Hee-hee!





Want to know how to do the "I'm so sexy with my curls pinned up all over the place" Rebekah look? I'll invite you over and beg her to show us!

If you want to learn...email me. Come over. We'll all sit in my bathroom together. I'm not kidding. Maybe we'll make a video tutorial.

What silly thing do YOU want to learn to do?

Maybe someone knows how to do it.

Maybe we all can learn it together!