no-makeup-november

Instead of not shaving (like the guys), let's commit to a makeup-free month! Ladies, our beauty is not found in our physical appearance. It is found in our hearts being captured by our Heavenly Father and receiving His amazing, perfect love. He created us as truly, uniquely beautiful. We all sometimes fall into the lies telling us we need to hide our faces in order to be beautiful or enhance our beauty. Together we will embrace the love of God and find our true beauty and satisfaction in Him.

Will you join me? 


Want to know who else is participating? Check it here on facebook.

prayer to my perfect Dad

i don't want to write my own story, i don't want to make my own way, 

i just want to follow in your footsteps, Father, show me your way.

looking back

every once in a while i pull out my old journals. i like to read the thoughts and prayers of my simple self and my very dramatic accounts of life then. and usually something catches my eye and it becomes so clear to me how God has been preparing me for the present. he has been shaping my foolish, girlish, childish heart. dumbfounded, i am simply thankful that he is the planner, that i didn't fall in love with and marry that boy from my 9th grade biology class, that i didn't move to france right out of highschool, and that i didn't follow in that particular person's footsteps like i wanted.

i am really thankful.

probably in a few years (or months), i'll look back on my journals from now and think how very young and overly dramatic i was.

comfort

is so sought after in our culture.

Jesus didn't have it.


i don't want it.



uncomfort.




i want it.





like Jesus.