Most consumers purchasing athletic clothes aren’t exercising in them at all; they are taking part in a fashion trend often called “athleisure”, because the aforementioned athletic clothes are often worn by people who aren’t working out. For instance, the Wall Street Journal found that sales of yoga apparel grew approximately 45% in 2013, but yoga participation that same year only grew 4.5%. In many social circles, it has already become the norm to wear athleisure clothes in everyday situations, and one could an analogous connection between a half-hearted spiritual life and the symbolic nature of portraying one’s self as active. Projection versus reality, passive facade versus beneficial behavior.

Paraphrasing here, Matthew 18:3 (depending on the publisher or edition of the Bible in your possession) roughly states “…unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” Open to interpretation as much within the Bible, perspective changes and becomes more succinct once one has had a child. Watch as Melinda relates her personal experience between the quote and motherhood.

Have you ever found yourself at an event when someone’s cell phone ringtone cuts through the silence of a room? Attendees (and even those involved in the production or performance) seek out the offender, wanting to know who it was that pulled an inexcusable social faux pas. But what happens if that person ends up being you? Fumbling to silence your device before anyone catches on that you’re the culprit. Learn how one goes from judging to fear as the situation flips on one’s self.