Welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks for joining me today.

I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving celebration and now on to December.

So today I'm going to talk to you about clothes and company. I have a quote for you.

It's from the Puritan Minister Thomas Brooks and it's from a book that Charles Virgin assembled

that is a collection of quotations from Brooks and it's called smooth stones taken from

ancient Brooks. So it's quite the play on words there. But anyway onto the quotation. This is it.

Clothes and company do oftentimes tell tales in a mute but significant language. I'll just read it

again. Clothes and company do oftentimes tell tales in a mute but significant language.

This is just as true today. It's when he wrote this in the 17th century. Pretty amazing.

And we can't deny it. The way we dress is a language and as Brooks puts it, our clothes are telling

tales about us. So what we as Christian women want to consider is what tales are being told about

us by the clothes we wear. And are these tales consistent with our Christian character

witness to the world. So consider how you read other people by their dress. We all do this almost

without thinking all the time. We gather impressions and we come to conclusions by the way people

dress. So the point here is let's consider what our own clothes and our children's clothes

are telegraphing to others. And is this a message that we want to send and is it consistent

with our Christian character and confession. So let's take a minute to consider

what are some of the tales that clothing can communicate. First category I came up with

sloppy clothes. I think they can telegraph laziness, a lack of love for others, ignorance,

or a lack of self-awareness. You know when you see people at the grocery store wondering around

their slippers or looks like are those your pajamas sloppy. I remember in elementary school

how much my mother took pains to dress me and my clothes were always clean and pressed and she

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