How To Be a Glow Girl

Good Morning Sweet Friends!

The advertising agency said the cover would be glossy, like Glamour Magazine.
The premier issue would be calculatingly printed right before the holidays. The media specialist promised strategic placement. They were targeting female executives and research showed that these women were my marketing audience. I stared at the hot pink cover and read the ad copy.

"She is smart, savvy, ambitious, affluent and powerful. She spends time shopping, entertaining, at home with her family, actively engaging her body and mind, connecting with friends and reconnecting with herself...She is a key decision maker...She strives for greater success and personal fulfillment."

I couldn't pinpoint a reason right away for not being in the magazine. The world was attracted to a "Glow" reader.

I considered the following words that sounded something like Proverbs 31.
"She has the motivation and means to buy products and services that make her and her family's life easier and more fulfilling." I was beginning to be jealous of this woman.

Then it hit me. All of the attributes attached to this woman involved her head, her body, her energy, and her position. Nothing spoke of her spiritual life. I became fascinated with reinventing the "Glow Girl."

"She is a light and a prayer warrior. She is a prioritized, and purposeful evangelist. She is uplifting and encouraging and committed to those around her. She is not self-reliant, but reliant on the Holy Spirit. She is confident of who she is in Christ and sure of her position in his kingdom. She is full of integrity. She is a woman who glows."

Satisfied with my new demographics, I went to the Word. Romans 12:2 says,
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing, and perfect will."

As Christians we are "under new management." 2 Corinthians 5:20 states,
"We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us." Our lives should be an ad that says, "You want this."

There are many talented professionals in the workplace that are successful, influential women. Many Christians. They have been given an opportunity to effect those around them. I have a beautiful friend who is a hard-working, skilled individual. She is striving to have a marriage retreat leaflet allowed in her office. I hope she is triumphant.

Going back over the ad copy, which was used as a springboard for today's post, and not as a dissension project, I hope that dear reader you will look at your demographics carefully and consider what is beautiful in God's eyes.

These notes were taken from a speaking engagement I was invited to a few years ago.

God Bless you,
Alis