Pinterest is an interesting phenomenon.
It's a HUGE collaboration of crafts, inspiring pictures, workouts, fashion inspiration, education for children and beyond. What's the most pervasive, though, is wedding stuff. Wedding dresses, wedding flowers, reception decorations, ceremony decorations, budget ideas, thoughtful ideas, and it goes on and on and on.
Joseph and I have made it past the wonderful 1 year mark, putting wedding planning well behind us. Perhaps this is why it bothers me, but I think there's more. Many of these ideas, dresses, and venues are so unattainable. I'm not saying that your big day shouldn't be special and as you have always imagined. But don't set your heart up for failure, and after it's over, it's time to let go. Continual pinning of greater and greater ideas and beautiful things can easily turn to discontent or regret of your own special day.
What are you using this tool for? Is looking through the women's fashion causing you to feel discontent with the clothes you have in your own closet or giving you helpful ideas of how to mix what you do have and what pieces could be good add-on's next? Are you gathering wedding images for inspiration or are they growing frustration in your heart because there is a gap between your dream and reality? Are you looking through fitness pictures more than you are actually working out?
Check your heart. Guard it from the creeping discontent of this big shiny world. Start counting your blessings more often than coveting someone else's.
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