The Wonderings of My Heart

The world tells us that we aren't worth anything if we aren't beautiful by the world's standards and I think we all know what those are. You can't even watch the news without seeing commercials promoting some new beauty product or service. The most recent one that is quite hilarious to one member of my family (Ben) is fat sculpting by freezing the fat. I'm not sure what he finds so funny but I hope he keeps that attitude about superficial beauty. He has taught me that children don't see beauty the same way a lot of adults out in the world do, at least for Ben, he sees the beauty of the heart. Yes, they do see beauty in the outward appearance too but think about the kind of people that children are drawn to.. is it the gorgeous person with a nasty attitude? "Do not let your adornment be merely outward - arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel - rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle

“For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” II Corinithians 5:1 It seems as though my husband and I have been on a never ending search for “home.” We spent the first years of our marriage outside of the Lord’s will for our life. (I use the singular term for life here because I believe that when you marry the person that the Lord created for you, you live a “life.” You are bound together and no longer lead separate lives.) The Lord had to break us because we were stubborn, we still are but more so stubborn to do the Lord’s will for our life. We know what it’s like to live outside of the will of God and it’s not something we would wish upon anyone. Through the broken times in our life, my husband heeded the Lord’s call to preach. In our naïve minds, we thought we would go right into pastoring a church. Boy, were we wrong. Five years later and we are still waiting, having grow