Canvas Girl and Narcissism

They really do use her like their wee canvas..drawing on her as they like. She loves it.  I think I showed that in past posts.  This is MJ's latest piece...the girl, as shown by little Blu.  I love her dolly drawings.  They are simple and sweet and I like how she captures how she sees little girls right now....mind you, I would like to see them with some clothes on. 

I want to add this link (if I haven't already) to the current series The Meeting House is doing called "Get Over Yourself".  It is super fabulous!  It looks at our narcissistic culture from the areas or our self-esteem (the culture of me), to our apprearance (the culture of hot!), materialism (the culture of mine), entitlement (the culture of special) and this next week is....I am not sure.  Just click on the link and go to teaching at the top of the page and you will find the current series.. I recommend watching the videos as I like to see the person as they speak.  I have thought a lot about and do think a lot about our culture we are living in and how it affects me, how it is affecting our kids and what I need/want to do to live a Christ centered life within that, so  a lot of this isn't new to me. But for so many this is new stuff and important stuff to think about.  I think so many are sick of materialism and our buying habits and how we see it affecting our kids and the disconnected views they seem to be having with sTUFF and life....what do I need to be doing differently as a parent in order to teach them selflessness and other-centered living in our self-centered world? How much is too much? Too much technology....too much time away form one another, too much separateness?  What choices do I need to be making in order to keep our family together, to keep and guide their hearts, to teach them how to navigate through this narcissistic culture?  I think no matter where one finds themselves right now, with faith or without or not even sure what that is, check this out!  It takes about half and hour to watch/listen too and I think it is time well spent.  Would love to know thoughts if you do happen to listen.  I particularly loved the week on materialism and heading into the Christmas season, this is a great one to listen too first!  But I also just loved this past weeks on the Culture of Special.  It was directed towards parenting and the parent child relationship.  I could go on........I LOVE IT!