I never have understood tattoos, and I especially don’t get “body jewelry.” God created our bodies. He calls them His holy temples and urges us not to do anything to hurt or destroy them. We are beautiful the way God created us without added adornment.

While I don’t understand the tattoo and body piercing craze, nor do I judge folks who engage in it. Shucks. I would be a poor judge of something like that—I don’t even wear makeup.

However, my spirit rebels against nose rings. With “modern” “liberated” women fighting for their rights and equality and refusing to be usurped by men—why, oh, why would they wear a piece of jewelry that men have used over the centuries to keep them submissive and that ranchers use to control and manage livestock? Every time I see a woman with a nose ring—it troubles me. Why would a woman value herself so little that she accepts branding that demeans her? That she would choose to follow fashion trends rather than God?

“Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Corinthians 6:18, 19.

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