who do you look like?

One of my friends, teases me all the time because i wear skirts or dresses everyday. I never owned a pair of pants until i was about 11. We always wore dresses. Granny said a lady should look like a lady.

I do wear pants occasionally, but i find skirts much more comfortable. This morning, i am wearing blue and silver flip flops, a denim skirt,and a black top with blue polka-dots. My friend that teases me so much, never, ever wears dresses, and often wears shorts!!!!to church on wed. I find that a little bit shocking. She belongs to the pentecostal holiness church, and i dress like it....

Tonight when i take the children to their music lessons, at the local church, i will be the only lady in a dress. They will have on shorts, sweats, jeans, anything and everything but dresses.

I asked why they don't wear dresses as most pentecostal holiness women do, and they told me, their bishop freed them from wearing dresses 20 years ago, and now they won't wear them at all.

It seems strange to be freed from wearing dresses, i like to look like a lady, and i think i feel more feminine wearing dresses, and it is a small reminder to me (who can be very difficult) that i literally don't wear the pants in my family, and i need to follow my husbands lead.

I see it as a matter of submission , my husband doesn't care if i wear skirts, but he likes it. I have been thinking, if we can't submit on earth to our husband, and the authority of the church, what does it say about our soul, and our ability to surrender and submit to God.

I don't have any answers, i am just working on it....I keep reminding myself to be still....