God Put Me Through Beauty School

Let’s Put On Our Fancy Pants and Ride……….

Believe it or not…..God Wants -In- on the Joke! Seriously! God appealed to my sense of humor today to get me out of a major funk!

I just finished two of three video projects and I’m ready to start the next one. This is my crunch time and it’s usually when I do my best work. However, while I’m finishing these projects I also have to follow up on new leads and put together new proposals and I’m already working until 11pm at night! You have to understand, I don’t have a Type A personality and work is never going to be an escape for me! I’m creative and I need a lot of space to ponder life, be still, laugh, have fun, and then discuss it all. But I’m also a hard worker and I would rather be run over than drop a ball when it involves other people. I am constantly pursuing the balance between the two! So yes, sometimes I will work a month straight without blinking and then other times, like yesterday, I pull the covers over my head and HIDE!!!!! Can anyone else relate to this????

I woke up feeling the burden of being a single woman trying to make it for one more month. It seemed like I hadn’t had a day off since high school. I was completely burned out and weak from the unrelenting responsibility!

OK ….BUT THE ACTUAL PICTURE OF MY LIFE IS MUCH DIFFERENT! I’m sorry God for giving in to these thoughts when YOU have provided for me, YOU have taken care of me, YOU have given me time off, YOU have brought me to safe pastures and the wildest adventures!

I wanted to write out the tormenting thoughts that caused me to shut down yesterday so I could share the amazing way God brought me out of an ugly pit.

It’s hilarious actually! God didn’t minimize my feelings but he strengthened me in a very unusual way! My friend gave me a DVD with four of the sweetest girl movies of all time. I Love it!!! Being the best boyfriend -of all time- Derek agreed to watch one of them with me. So last night he asked me out on a dinner and movie date. We settled on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants for the movie. haha! Of course we are making jokes about it because otherwise it would potentially be the most painful two hours of his life.:) So we have named this is our ‘fancy pants’ date night. There is a point to telling you this…..

Today, I woke up still feeling the heavy burdens but I just couldn’t waste another day. I felt like I was buried six feet under trying to find the strength to come out of it. This was no joke! I turned to Isaiah 35 which is titled in my Bible: Joy of the Redeemed. It says, “The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom….it will burst into bloom, it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.” It sort of set the tone for what God was about to do. Plus, as I’ve written before, this is the year of Joy! We 3 Queens made a toast to the Joy of the Lord is Our Strength!

Next, I turned to Isaiah 51:9: “Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord;”I needed to Wake Up and quit hiding….so this immediately got my attention. Then I turned the page and saw this word repeated a few more times (Is 51: 17) “Awake, awake! Rise up O Jerusalem…” (Is 52:1) Awake, awake o Zion, clothe yourself with strength, put on your garments of splendor…” PUT ON YOUR GARMENTS OF SPLENDOR??? Right at that moment my boyfriend text me and said something about our “fancy pants” date (jokingly) and I was responding …with my Bible open to PUT ON YOUR GARMENTS OF SPLENDOR! LOL! Omgosh ….. GOD IS -IN- ON THE JOKE! Garments of Splendor…it might as well say Fancy Pants! Then the scripture goes on to say, “shake off your dust, rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem, Free yourself from the chains on your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.”

Even though I knew God was speaking to me through the “wake up” word, I didn’t seem to have the strength to step out of the pit. UNTIL, Until…. I realized God was part of our date night joke!! In that split second, I was AWAKE and Laughing and pretty Amazed!! Pit? What Pit? I mean, isn’t it hard to imagine God actually listening to a silly date night conversation?….much less RESPONDING to it!!! God is so real! He was saying, ‘Wake Up and put on your fancy pants! It’s your ‘fancy pants’ day! There’s reason to rejoice!’ haha!

If you ask most people what they find attractive about another person…..’a sense of humor’ is usually right up there with the most important qualities. So doesn’t it make sense that the God who created Beauty would also have a sense of humor! Amazing, right?

Just in case you’re still in a pit…I pray God would strengthen you in a powerfully, personable way. “Awake, awake…and clothe yourself with strength…put on your garments of splendor…”

So lets put on our Fancy Pants and Ride….this is an incredible adventure!

Love you,
Missy