The moms chatted while the girls got their pictures taken. When he was filming, I noticed our videographer had a tattoo on the inside of his forearm:
“Behold, I make all things new,” it read.
When we were filming the women for my new book, 21 Myths, he said a few times, “It doesn’t escape me that I’m a 30-year-old guy, and you all have lived so much, and it seems like I don’t belong here, but I do. I belong.”
My husband was there too: the Cowboy, driving the women around his parents’ Legacy 8 Ranch in his big bad truck, in that southern-gentleman way I fell for 16 years ago — making us feel cared for, protected, safe.
That’s what 21 Myths is about: how we can feel safe. How safe sex is married sex. How God loves us and wants to protect and heal our hearts. The women bore their hearts one-on-one and in front of the camera that weekend.
It was hard and it was healing. And it rained the whole time.
Yesterday I read this review:
As someone who did not turn to follow Christ until my early 20’s I live with years of sexual shame from my past. I have been working with the Lord on this, knowing in my mind that He has forgiven me, but still not truly forgiving myself. It has been my biggest struggle and affects many areas of my life including dating (how can someone love me when I can’t love myself or accept God’s love for me in the area of past sexual sin?). Jennifer’s book 21 Myths (Even Good Girls) Believe about Sex has been the most eye opening blessing. I am learning the steps to be free of this shame and guilt, and move forward knowing that I am forgiven and so truly loved by our Father.
The last night of the filming, all the women burned pieces of paper marked with the residue from our pasts, and we watched the embers eat alive the things we were never meant to carry on our own.
“Behold, I make all things new.” – Revelation 21:5
Three days later, the weather report read clouds.
Yet the shone over the teenage girls we filmed that Sunday evening.
The sun came. Yes it did.
The sun warmed us when the Cowboy and I walked across the field.
And the girls felt beautiful and knew they were part of something bigger than themselves, and it showed on their faces.
The videos are coming soon.
If you live in the Dallas Fort Worth area, we’d love for you to join us at our 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex release event. You can register by clicking on this link.
Love,