Delicate Post 2

The Princess and the Pea and Me

Delicate.  All princesses are delicate, right?  As I looked through the worldly definitions of delicate, this is what I found:
1 - fine in texture, quality, construction, etc
2 - fragile, easily damaged
3 - frail or sickly
4 - fine or precise in action or execution
5 - requiring or showing great care, caution or tact
6 - keenly sensitive

Scriptural definition - see tender.

My mind went to the fairy tale of The Princess and the Pea.  Allow me to refresh your memory. A prince needed to find a  princess and naturally, hundreds of young ladies applied for the position.  His mother, being wise as all mothers are, knew that only a TRUE princess would be delicate enough to feel a tiny pea placed under a stack of mattresses. Soooooo.... The princess interview process began.  Some of the "princesses" were beautiful, others were funny, others were good, others were smart. But on the night that they spent at the palace in the royal guest chambers, upon the high stack of feather mattresses, the queen would sneak a green pea under the bottom mattress.  And each morning, when the girls would come down, refreshed from their wonderful night's sleep, the queen would shake her head at her husband and her son, and they would sigh and have the young lady escorted out.  Finally, one girl passed the test.  She was delicate enough, sensitive enough to feel the miniscule lump under the stack of a hundred mattresses.  The queen nodded to her husband, who nodded to their son who proposed on the spot and they lived happily ever after.

Believe it or not, I am a princess.  My spirit was born to a royal King and Queen and I have a Prince as my Elder Brother.  My spiritual lineage is as pure as it can be.  Would I pass this test of a tiny pea being placed in a stack of mattresses?  Am I delicate enough that I would toss and turn, getting more uncomfortable by the second?  Or would I carry on, not noticing anything and enjoy a night of blissful slumber?

The test that Heavenly Father gives me doesn't have anything to do with a pea, or mattresses or a good night's sleep.  The type of "delicate" that He is searching for in me is spiritual.  Am I still the spiritual princess that He created me to be?

In a movie, does a scene that implies sexual actions make me squirm?  Does a scene of brief nudity make me want to leave the theater?  Do I change the channel when a TV show's writing contains nothing but lewd comments?  Do I cringe when I hear the name of my Father or my Elder Brother used in vain?  Do I blush at the commercials that stretch decency to the limit? Do I turn off the radio when the lyrics aren't suitable for my children (or me) to listen to? Or are those just small peas that don't bother me anymore because they are covered up by the mattresses of popularity, laughs, fear of being embarrassed. or other excuses?

Those are the questions I need to explore as I study the attribute of being "delicate".