The amazing way of God

Annah got her hair done today. The first time ever.  I had always thought her hair was just too short but, wow...the lady  weaved in extensions with great ease and created a whole new look.  I love it!  I am probably going to wonder why I didn't begin getting her hair braided a couple years ago.  This style is suppose to last about 3 months and very casual.... just wash and go.  I can't imagine the freedom in that. Annah's hair and myself have had some great times and some not so great times. The struggles....   And I learned so much about future hair care for her  just being there... it was great!  It took about 3 hours and Annah sat still...almost falling asleep here and there. Annah loves her new style, she has been flinging that hair around like a little doll..  :) 

I heard the most amazing testimony. I listened as the man himself shared it.   There was a man who, as a little boy of about 3, his dad left him and his mom.  The dad wanted to ride free around the world on his motorcycle and have his own life, not be straddled with a kid and wife.  The mom was young and ended up just getting into drugs and other stuff. She was brutally murdered in front of the little boy when he was 8.  I don't know how he avoided Child Protective Services but apparently he landed in the streets and lived there and became a drug addict and a gang member.  At one point he became suicidal and as he contemplated his misery and suffering and ending his life he was aimlessly walking around and he saw a church. He'd never been in a church. He didn't know anything at all about God or Christ or the Holy Spirit...but he wandered into the church and the pastor just happened to be there. The guy told the pastor everything. The Pastor told him that he too had been in trouble, on drugs, in a gang, in prison for several years. He said he found God in prison  and came out born again, forever permanently changed and saved.  The young man was just so amazed that God had taken the pastor from the depths of hell, cleaned him up, fixed him,loved him as he was and then there he was whole and in church and a Pastor.... The pastor led the young man to Christ and then he pulled out his wallet and showed him an array of photographs of himself and a little boy... as it turned out, the pastor in the church was the young mans dad.  :)   Amazing  Love. Amazing Grace.

“Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.” -A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)