January 9 2014

January 14 2013
Greetings My Friend,
As this year begins I find myself reading the Bible through for another year. I read
a few devotions from on line, I read my Sunday school study and find ways to keep learning
and growing in God's Word.
My brain feels challanged, I find that the more I immerse myself in God's life that the things
of this world aren't as important as they once were. I no longer need status symbols to show my
worth because God gives me my worth and frankly that feels real nice.
Junior has always been a thrift store shopper. As a young person he was so poor that having meat
was a luxuary. He learned to get by with what he had. As I married Junior I began to learn how
to thrift store shop and these days a good portion of my clothes come from thrift stores. We even
find furniture and the like to use within our home.
I am also a dollar store shopper these days. Malls aren't close by so the dollar store is my source
of shopping many days. I love walking up to the counter will an arm load of stuff and paying only $20
for it all. It is fun.
We have what we need in life. At our age we have collected a home's worth of stuff plus. We truly don't
need much like when we were younger and supporting our family. Once we get something these days it may
be months or years before we need that thing again. I still like to shop from time to time though so these
cheaper shopping outlets will feed the need to shop urge. It works.
The lesson I keep learning in learning how to wear slightly used clothes is that a name brand is only so
good for so long and then it is cast off. By learning to wear thrift store clothes I find myself walking
away from the need to impress. It has been a sobering lesson at this point though I don't mind.
On my own I think I would have found Junior to be a bit too much. With my prayers asking God to teach me
to be the woman Junior needs and a major part of my prayer is "open my eyes and heart to Junior" I would
have grown tired of this man. Each time God reveals Junior's heart to me though I find myself falling in
love with Junior. I find I don't really care if he seems strange to the people around me. I know Junior
only wants what God wants and my heart tends to re-foucus on Junior in a deeper way.
I have always been concerned with my looks and these days I find that if I am beautiful to Junior that is
truly all I care about. Junior's likes in women are older than my own likes. He is older and I am 7 years
younger so I tend to be more like a sixties child where he is more of a 50's child. As I continue to seek
Junior's best I tend to want to be what he likes in looks more than what I want. I am still me don't get
me wrong. Polishing my nails often is too tedious and I can't commit to it. Curling my hair is too much
work and I can't. I can get a perm with partialy curly hair and all I do is wash and wear it....that I can
give to Junior.He likes it and I am able to do this.
So more and more I find contentment in God and God teaches me what I truly need and in that life is full and
rich. Yup I like that.
May God bless you and keep you make His face to shine on you.
Love
Janet