THE BEAUTY DISTRACTION
I had a revelation about women's obsessions with unrealistic beauty standards yesterday. I realize that it is the "great distraction".

Being obsessed with physical appearance and approval from the outside is a BIG distracting business. It keeps women busy. It keeps us too busy to worry about what is really happening in this world. It keeps up too busy from contributing to the solutions to the BIG problems that our world is facing right now. This distraction keeps up "out of the game". This is a tragedy because we are needed more now than ever.

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to bear witness to some of the unspeakable atrocities that are occurring on earth AT THIS VERY MOMENT. Genocide, war and other senseless killings of innocent, FELLOW human beings. What struck me the most was the way the message was being delivered to me. I was in the audience of an event where Mia Farrow was talking about the distressing situation in the Darfur region of Sudan. What really hit home was that she was spreading the word to all of us because one women had pleaded with her to "tell us what was happening" over there. That's it. Just one woman pleading with another woman for help. Isn't that all there ever is?

People need our help all over the world. They don't care if there hair is the right colour or their jeans fit perfectly. They want more basic things like security, food, education and a peaceful night's sleep for their babies. In the end, isn't that what we want? I was shaken from my own "distractions" and realized that if I don't take a stand, who will? What exactly am I waiting for - a sign??