Seneca:
Moving a little bit further, how did this cancer inspire the Bible Belles Heroes for Her?
Erin: I think it comes in two parts. First part is as a
young girl, and a lot of your female listeners can attest to
this. If they are grown up girls, they probably went through
something like this. When you’re a young girl, you really
struggle with insecurity and self doubt, and not feeling like
you’re worth very much. It has to do with girls constantly
comparing themselves, there’s this competition that exists
between girls, and I really struggled with that growing up,
which is why I lost faith and I got confused, and I started
looking for my worth all over the world, and not finding it.
It has to come from that, and then after my cancer diagnosis, I got this new found hope in the Lord, and what he
wanted me to do as far as redirecting my life. I went back
to school, I became a teacher and a coach, and I just immersed myself into the culture of kids, and hanging out
with kids, and talking with them, and listening to them, and
learning about how this struggle is just plaguing girls today.
Amidst all that I got married, and found out we
were pregnant and having a girl, and just had this moment
of terror, of, “How am I going to help my own daughter
navigate all of these negative feelings she’s about to have
about herself, about the world around her, about real beauty, and that’s really where this series came from.
Seneca :
Who are the five characters?
Erin: Oh, oh, in the series, so we chose five women
from the Bible that we thought really exemplified the qualities that make up an inwardly beautiful woman. We chose
Hannah, Esther, Abigail, Ruth, and Deborah. The qualities
that we wanted to focus on were prayer, patience, bravery,
loyalty, and leadership, and these five women really represent the journey that today’s girl can take if she wants
to discover God’s love, if she is looking for her purpose,
she can find it through our main character. She’s going to
watch our character go on a series of adventures where
she gets to learn about all these women, but as it relates
to a real world problem that the character has. It’s meant
for a girl to really connect with the character and each of
the Bible Belles in a very meaningful way so that she can
apply biblical truth to her own life, no matter how old she is.
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