I want to make it clear that I am a Christian short skirt. That is, youre mom I go everywhere my Christian wearer goes, even to church.
Though we represent a variety of colors and patterns, we short skirts have a lot in common. We all have a way of revealing attractive thighs, especially when the legs are crossed.
Unless I am misreading the situation, we seem to make our wearers a bit self conscious. At least the girl who wears me is always tugging at my hem.
I have also noted that we short skirts have the ability to attract a good deal of masculine attention, even at church. At first I took pride in thinking men are fascinated by my pattern and color design. However, just this morning, I heard the preacher say that this was not really what the young men (some not so young) were looking at. Though I was all ears when he started to preach, “The Appeal Of A Short Skirt”, I was embarrassed before he was through.
According to him, there are dozens of other skirts more beautiful than I. His blanket statement that short skirts do not make an aesthetic, academic, moral, or spiritual contribution to the wearers left me feeling I was not such a great Christian after all.
He said my appeal was to the lusts of the flesh, at which time I felt a hard tug on my hem. He then spoke on the carnality of human nature and gave this quote: To flaunt sexuality in public is a betrayal of your femininity, not an endorsement. It is like playing the tuba on the subway to prove you are a musician. It isn’t honest to expose a man to the aroma of steak and apple pie…, and then accuse him of being a glutton because he licks his lip.”
I really blushed when he asked what we thought our testimony amounted to in the presence of men who cared not about feminine purity. He said it doesn’t take much to trigger a man’s thought in the direction of sex.
The preacher claimed there is nothing about a short skirt that would suggest to the man on the street that the wearer’s body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. He said that the Bible teaches that a Spirit-indwelled body should be adorned in modest apparel (1 Timothy 2:9-19). I began to feel as though I was abetting the crime wave when he made the connection that lust leads to sin, and sin to violence and abuse.
I suppose it is the truth that hurts. That’s why I hurried out of church this morning. I saw several other short skirts slinking out, too.
I guess what we really need is to be converted into something more modest.
–Adapted from a tract by Don W. Hillis
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