the power of beauty

The girls and I are doing this study together about the power of "true" beauty and modesty. Yesterday, our challenge was to understand the "power" that girls possess and then to learn to be responsible for that power. It was explained in this manner: Are you familiar with the Gestalt Theory? The Gestalt Theory teaches an artist to control a viewer's time by forcing the person to mentally complete a visual image.....because the brain is intrigued by completing the incomplete, it will always pause to finish an unfinished picture.
So.....(this is when it gets good), when a man sees a tight-fitting shirt or a belly or a slit cut up the side of a woman's skirt or too much cleavage, he will mentally finish the "picture." That makes so much sense to me and my daughters. God want us to "captivate" only our future husband and it is our responibility, as women, to honor the way he created men by not "captivating' them. It is a respect thing....not of ourselves, but of God's creation. I think it was a "light-bulb" moment for us.
The key verse: May your fountain be blessed and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer...may you ever be captivated by her love. Proverbs 5:18-19
We went to different art galleries to find examples of this Gestalt theory and we drank coffee and tea and soaked up some culture in art form....what a great day. I love my girls......