A Force Of Nature

Have you ever encountered a force of nature? There’s an easy way to tell, if you have to stop and think about your answer you haven’t. Forces of nature leave an indelible impression, in 2004 I went through Hurricane Charley. It was a force three hurricane and I will never forget that experience.

Forces of nature often become landmarks in our lives, the people of Katrina will always remember that hurricane as a focal point, as in life before Katrina and life after. Forces of nature can be hurricanes, earthquakes, or drought. They can be events like the Civil War, World War 2, Kennedy’s assassination. They are always powerful phenomena that alter lives, defining events if you will.

So you hardly expect to encounter one on a church bus, cleverly disguised as a twenty something woman about the size of a munchkin, with a passion for purity in young girls that washes over you like a tsunami. We’re not talking about the purity the way that adults preach to youngsters, you know what I’m talking about. “Don’t have sex before marriage, buy longer skirts, don’t dress like a tramp, you’ll get treated like a tramp.” That stuff verges on legalism, and young girls sense that. 

No, Ashley Dawn communicates the loving purity of Jesus. She tells the young girls “You MERIT dressing with taste, you DESERVE to be treated with respect because you are a child of the most high God, you ARE ALREADY beautiful with the beauty of Christ and the messages you are seeing on TV, in your music, pictured in tabloids, are lies, designed to defile you, not to make you acceptable.

Ashley Dawn is exhausting to be around because her heart is on fire for little girls, she speaks from love, a shout really, and she’s all about passion not rules. She get’s girls to the same place older folks try to, but she phrases her message in love not dictum, not you should, but you deserve.

Here’s the deal, I’m not asking you to support this woman, I’m telling you. I’ve never done that before, but her ministry is that important. She’s at the start of her journey and I believe she’s going to impact thousands of young girls at precisely the place they’re most reachable, in early elementary school. So go to her website www.innerbeauty101.com, support her on Facebook at InnerBeauty101, follow her on Twitter, go to her YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/InnerBeautyMinistry, or simply email her at Innerbeauty101@hotmail.com.  But go to her now, she’s about God’s business and she needs our support now.That’s what a force of nature does to you, sweeps you along in it’s path, and resistance is futile (Where have I heard that before?)