"When I was a young adult there was a wildly popular book about dressing for career success. It spawned many copycat books, all proclaiming the benefits of proper attire for everything from boardrooms to schoolrooms. The premise was that your clothes were the first impression others had of you, and consequently had a great impact on your successes or failures in life. There is no doubt that this, and all the other books like it, helped many people achieve their goals in the secular world. As a mother of three teenage boys, the oldest of which is now in college, both my husband and myself have always stressed the importance of that first impression and have given great credence to the fact that clothes actually do matter. But as a mother I have also been thinking along different lines. As much as I want my children to dress for great successes in their lives and in their careers, I’ve been encouraging them to also dress for eternal success. And for that I have turned to Ephesians 6:11-18"