It's the little things...like SPRINKLES!!!

So loving all things quirky, I get the email from a 20-something blogger who I'd love to be best friends with :) She's called "girl meets life" and also has something to say/show that brings a smile to my face -- but seriously read this last one!!!

"Because I do. And it’s the use of a word commonly used by girls to describe something they like very, very much. You know what word I’m talking about…

OBSESSED.

I am dark, but I am lovely...

Read this note from a sister -

Song of Solomon is one of those books in the bible that beckons me to read more. No… it’s not the over-the-top analogies that draw my interest (read: “Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing.” That’s in there. I promise) but I find myself intrigued by the love story being poured out over the pages. Fresh-shorn-sheep-talk and all.

As of late, this particular portion of the book has been pulling at my heart:

I am dark, but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
Like the tents of Kedar,
Like the curtains of Solomon.
Do not look upon me, because I am dark…
-Song of Solomon 1:5-6

Here we see a bride acknowledging her condition…her darkness (which is obviously something she is not proud of ) and then, in the very same sentence, she acknowledges her loveliness.

Could this be the beautiful paradox that is God’s grace?

Read the rest by going to (in)courage

God's plan is found at the intersection of the world greatest need and our burning passions