Blutifully Human wrote:

Yeah, that's pretty much what I gathered when I read your post. Because I noticed how you referenced the woman that you were when you wore those jeans, and how you now consider yourself as a different individual. And I totally agree about how you have to do what is best for you and your relationship with God. I believe that everyone's journey is an individual one, and we can all take/not take different things. Someone can sit through a rated R movie and not feel inclined to fornicate when they leave. Someone else might see certain imagines and feel lustful and tempted. One person can have a glass of wine and be perfectly fine. However, a recovering alchoholic may not want to be around liquior of any kind. So I totally understand where you are coming from with the jeans thing. Although I do wear jeans, and can get a lil artistic with my make up at times lol, I can't say that I think/do some of the things that I used to when I wasn't fully devoted to God (so i totally feel u). And yes, I do come from a pentecostal background (Church of God in Christ to be exact), and no doubt there was a time when COGIC was quite strict (no pants, makeup, sleeveless apparell, flamboyant hair/nails, skirts a lil too far above the knee, etc.), but I can certainly say that is not the case across the board...ESPECIALLY in this day in age. What a preacher, pastor, or church mother says has no bearing on my personal relationship with God and my own spiritual journey. All of the choices and decisions that I make are according to my own prayer life. I can say that these days I am way more spiritual, not religious.