Why I Want To Be A Nudist
Anna
http://www.becomingjamie.com/2011/01/18/why-i-want-to-be-a-nudist/
I’ve been thinking lately about coming a nudist. Before you start
flipping out or thinking this is just another attention seeking blog
post topic that my heart isn’t really behind, hear me out. Nudism has
lots of benefits:
(1) It was God’s original plan. Yep, it’s a known fact that he didn’t
clothe Adam and Eve until after they had sinned. God’s original plan
was for us to live an agricultural lifestyle, tending the Garden, sans
any pesky hindrances like clothes. I’m already a gardener, so I feel
like the only thing holding me back from God is my Old Navy skinny
jeans in True Denim. (My sister would agree, as she hates skinny
jeans.)
(2) Nudism increases vitamin D exposure. I am vehemently opposed to
sunscreen (unless I happen to get dropped near the equator in January
without any prior sun exposure) because it limits your intake of
vitamin D. Research is now linking lack of vitamin D (particularly in
childhood) to all sorts of things, including multiple sclerosis. It
only makes sense that the more skin exposed to the air, the more
vitamin D your body will absorb.
(3) Practicing nudism puts you in a small, but very close knit
community. A community that has its own restaurants, subdivisions, and
family resorts. It is like a whole extended family you never knew you
had!
(4) I think we wear clothes because we have oversexualized our
culture. Everything is about sex, but if everyone were naked, things
would be different. We would become so accustomed to the sight, we
would be less concerned with getting people to take their clothes off.
In fact, we might be asking people to put their clothes on which would
be a welcome change of pace, don’t you think?
The Bible says:
If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows
that you don’t fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or whether
the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your
life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer
appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds,
free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in
the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.
Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by
so much as an inch? All this time and money wasted on fashion—do you
think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the
fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They
never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite
like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby
alongside them.
If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most
of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take
pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to
get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can
respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he
works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works.
Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t
worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns
will be met. ~Matthew 6:25-33 The Message
I think we waste a disturbingly huge amount of money on clothes in
this culture. Clothes that could go towards starving children, drug
rehabilitation, aiding women with crisis pregnancies. How long do you
think the clothes in your closet would last if you didn’t buy anything
else the rest of the year? Would you be living in tattered rags by
2012? I highly doubt it. Are you buying fashionable stuff because you
need it or because you want to be cool and look nice and pick up a hot
date?
When my husband left me, I made a conscious decision to live on a much
smaller budget. I chose not to put my kids in daycare and go get a
real job so that we could adhere to a higher standard of living. There
have been a lot of hard moments, and a lot of generosity from others
that has gotten me through. Yet, we have never gone without. Actually,
if you look at my closet, I dress nicer now than I ever did when I was
buying my own clothes, even though nearly everything I own is a hand
me down or thrift store find. I went from having a closet 1/3 full to
now being completely full without ever spending my own money. The free
time allotted to me by not being enslaved to a 40 hour work week has
allowed me to pursue a life that includes spending plenty of time with
my children, helping people through this blog, and getting closer to
God instead of weighed down by one of the devil’s favorite tools:
Busyness.
God really will provide for you. I don’t think you actually have to
become a nudist, but you do have to lay a part of yourself down and
learn to wait and not indulge and give in to consumerist culture.
So, what do you think? Could you avoid buying clothes for 2011?