i really want to share this with you all: i have been here for nearly a year now and as a lot of you know, i have been wanting to have a REAL conversation with my employees. well, yesterday i had my first one! i was so thrilled, but then i didn't have internet to tell you all about it. i was able to reference bible verses with them and discuss what the Word of God has to say about outward appearances verses matters of the heart.
jimmy put in a fake earring just to hear what i would say but some of the more fundamental nannies saw it and wanted to know if i thought it was okay. i explained that while i didn't like it for jimmy, it was not wrong for him to wear it. they told me that in 1 cor. 11, we are told otherwise. but i turned to that chapter and was able to show them that it doesn't actually say that at all. i was able to show them that we are living in the grace of God. that there are things, very specific things, that the Lord tells us to abstain from and to the best of my ability with the Holy Spirit, i abstain from such things. i am a sinner, i will never say otherwise, but my sin is not cutting my hair or wearing jeans. these things are not written in the Word of God. Jesus looks at my heart, not my pants.

well, that was a beginning. someday i'll be able to say that i understand that your pants can be a reflection of your heart and so on, but for now that was really exciting for me! thanks for those of you who have been praying to that end for me! please keep it up!