All Things Glamorous: Curvy Craze!

By: Ambrea Curry

So, let's talk CURVY! Curvy women everywhere are letting their presence be known and we love it! It is now, not just a term, but an identity! It has given full figured women the confidence to embrace their bodies and love who God made them to be! In the past, the term full figured was looked down upon as an equivalent to the word FAT! The word many women were afraid of, yet some even embrace that term too. However, today full figured women are not only taking steps to gain and maintain confidence but to also be healthy and lead a healthy lifestyle. DIET??? Ummm, not so much. It has like a negative tone right LOL...., but lets just say eating healthier...#cleaneating. It has become an epidemic, which is definitely a good thing. I mean, who doesn't want to live long, witness their wildest dreams come true, and see and play with their future children etc.? I know I do! Anywho.. I have been an advocate for full figured beauty my entire life. I was, in my eyes, a first full figured beauty who was always confident. Sure people said things, but I paid them no mind... "Who are you?", were my exact thoughts! The same thoughts I believe a lot of curvy women have today.

 We dress different, and I say "we" because I don't want offend anyone with these next statements LOL. Don't worry, its all love. Now listen ladies, I know we've come to love our bodies, but there's nothing wrong with girdles, spanx, etc. You get the picture...nothing wrong at all. Most of the bodies we see in Elle, Vogue, or Essence magazine are achieved with a simple spanx. We've become so comfortable being curvy that we sometimes forget how to make our curvy look good on us. Every body shape is not for every article of clothing, figure out what works for you and make it look good! Take pride in how you look, you never know who's watching!

Keep Calm and LOVE YOUR CURVY!!

Check out these full figured/curvy women who make curvy look good on them!

 

 

The "GOD" Factor: NEW NATURE

 

 

By: Ayana Bryant-Weekes

 

“I don’t think I’m considered a hoe [any] more; your ‘hoeness’ can

get deleted...” A strikingly bold and culturally unsupported response from

Basketball wives star, Draya Michele, when asked if she still considered

herself a “hoe”; Draya’s reply reared a tidal wave of not-so-nice reactions

and responses. I hadn’t actually seen the Breakfast Club interview where

Draya defended her new “good girl” image but the slew of social media

commentary had me curious.

The general consensus: “Hoeness” cannot be deleted, end of

discussion. Why not? Especially if you’re no longer a promiscuous being.

I found myself preparing to have the same argument I kept having over

and over again with people – primarily males – who criticize a woman

for turning from her promiscuous ways. I also found myself hurt and

discouraged because this attack hit close to home.

For myself, and a multitude of other girls who didn’t get it right the

first time, and are actively trying to turn from a past we may not be proud of

in the face of people who cant seem to trade in an old nature for a new, the

attack on women and their decision to keep their bodies pure, for whatever

reason, is so unfairly met with cynicism, ridicule and unforgiveness.

The song that repeats in my head as I type is Moving Forward by

Isreal Houghton, “You make all things new, yes, You make all things new

and I will follow You forward…” I guess my alacrity to accept Draya’s

statement comes from believing that it’s not up to other people to consent

to our decisions. In Colossians 3:9 the Bible tells us to, “Put on your new

nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like

him.”

Judah Smith, lead Pastor of The City Church and Author of Jesus

Is_____: Find A New Way To Be Human, recently wrote in Relevant

Magazine, an article He titled “Stop Seeing Yourself As A Sinner; Christ's

invitation to a new way to be human”.

 “Jesus gives us a new way to be human. In Jesus, and only in Jesus,

we are offered a new way of living… We can actually transcend

human nature. We don’t have to be subject to all our impulses and

urges, to all of our desires and passions.”

What struck me the most was his accurate description of what I believe is

happening to a lot of our generation that makes them so judgmental and

merciless towards someone trying to improve themselves. He said,

“The devil would love for us to believe that sin is not completely

defeated, that somehow our particular sin slipped through the cross,

and even Jesus could not kill it off. So now, we’re stuck with it. It

owns us. It defines us. It’s our pet sin, our inner demon, our personal

vice… I am a new kind of human. Because of Jesus, we have a new

humanity.”

PREACH JUDAH!!!!

Now, I’m not saying that a person’s past is to be ignored; Draya’s

past, just like everyone else’s, did at one time exist as a present state of

being, but she isn’t bound by it and neither should our perception of her.

Saul (Paul) was an angry murderer who threatened people and a host of

other damnable things, but he wrote thirteen of the twenty-seven books in

the New Testament after his encounter with Christ.

Draya’s bold idea that her uninhibited past is now deleted because

she has abandoned those activities is more Christ-like than our superficial

judgments towards her. All I’m saying is that the memory of your past is a

motivation to never go back to where you came from, not an identifier. Jesus

Christ died not just to save us from hell but so that we could become the new

creation Paul wrote about, and as one of the fiercest opponents of the Lord

who became God’s most willing servant, he would know.

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