Yesterday I was walking through a store in Huntsville picking up some supplies and goods for the church. I was walking to the check-out and a shirt someone was wearing caught my eye. It said, “Boy Chaser”. At first thought you might be saying, big deal! Right? What if I told you that the person wearing it was about 9 or 10 years old? Now you are horrified. Well, I was as well. Why allow your child to do this? Some mom or dad thought is would be funny or cute and some fashion designer knew that some parent would be crazy enough to fall into this trap. Your next thought, well maybe mom or dad did not know she had the shirt, that she was being stealth. Nope, mom was accompanying her at this store. They were smiling together while shopping. What I wanted to say to this mom is, do you really want your little girl to be a boy chaser? You want her number 1 priority to be finding yet another boy to fall for? What happened to parents wanting their children to be content with their family and striving to show them the way to a meaningful relationship with Christ? This shirt was bound to become a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts, because this little tween girl wanted this shirt (because in some way it was true of her) and her mom bought it. Parents, realize that moment that your children want shirts like this, is a teachable moment. We should pour into them the need to be a Jesus Chaser, pursuing him with all their might. Don’t allow this child to get clothing like this and feeding the fashion industry’s desire to “tart” our children up.
Most of all, stop feeding into the carnal desires of our world and our children. We must protect the innocence of our children and warn our children of the image they are portraying.

Well that is my 2 cents for today…