Category Archives: Beauty

Tell Them They Are Beautiful

She was tall and thin, and her long dark hair was naturally curly and complimented her dark eyes.   I was sitting next to her mother when she arrived to pick up her young son.  She walked over to her mother,  said a few words, called her son over andRead the Rest…

Tanning, Hair Color, Tone Thighs….Oh My!

I have four children. I’m tired. But, I do believe that keeping up our appearance aesthetically AND physically is a ministry to our husbands (and thus, family). It is one aspect of ourselves that we have to OFFER them. (By the way, can you guess who doesn’t shave their legs when Husband is out of town? C’mon, my kids like Mom’s furry legs!)

Dressing Our Mess

  “Every time we get dressed we tell the story of the Fall of humanity,” is a statement one of my professors made that has stuck with me (Dr. Glenn Kreider, DTS Fall semester 2011). Because in the Garden of Eden before the Fall, Adam and Eve were naked andRead the Rest…

Dealing with Insecurity

I have finicky hair. After my last baby, everything began to get wonky. It fell out, the curls went from curly to I’m-not-sure-what-I’m-looking-at kind of hair, it got thinner, and just plain weird. One morning, I was simply drying my wonky hair to head out to an All-Staff meeting atRead the Rest…

Who Me?

Then Jesus said to Simon, “don’t be afraid; from now on you will catch men.”  Luke 5:10 (NIV) Imagine how Simon (Peter) must have felt when, after an arduously long and unsuccessful night of fishing, Jesus stepped into his boat! And told him to go back out fishing! I don’tRead the Rest…