On Fridays I share things that made me happy from the week - a photo, a song, a quote, a beauty product, a recipe, a pair of cute shoes, etc. If it's a product, sometimes it's something I actually own and sometimes something I just saw online that gave me a smile. Sometimes it's serious and sometimes it's silly. I suppose I believe that God is in the simple details of life and yes, I can even find Him in a tube of lipstick.
Good morning! Happy Friday! I hate to break it to you, but we got less than two weeks until Christmas. So let's go. We gotta get after it. Here are my favorite things from this week.
1. The Wedding People
I've seen this book mentioned by so many people, so I started it this week. I usually wait until I finish a book to mention it here, but I'm loving this one. It starts out with some heavy stuff, but turns into a sweet, funny, charming story about a suicidal woman finding her voice and her worth through meeting a bunch of strangers at a wedding she was never meant to attend. Really great read.
2. Blake Brown All in Wonder Leave in Potion
I have mentioned many times that my hair and I have not been getting along for the past five or so years. Our relationship has become very complicated and it's been a struggle. My friend Lindsay suggested this new product from Blake Lively's haircare line on Facebook so I snapped it up at Target the very next day. I've used it a few times and I promise you I've had at least four compliments from people about my hair. What the heck? I love this stuff. It helps with frizz and fly aways and makes your hair shiny.
3. Notched Collar Blazer
I love the notched collar and the cinched waist on this blazer. It comes in several different shades. I personally probably wouldn't wear it with denim shorts and thigh high boots, but if this is your particular blazer journey, go for it.
4. Another Cute Amazon Set
This set is on my niece's wishlist and it is darling. Check out the link because there are numerous options including this colorblock top and another set with fun piping on the sleeves and legs. Adorable.
5. Lead Me On - Chandler Moore
I heard this song yesterday and it reminded me of all the 20something kiddos I know who are trying to make hard decisions. And there are so many of them out in the big, wide world that I love. More than the three I birthed. I suppose that's what happens when you plant your family in one place for 25 years and set out to find the people you're going to do life with. All of the roots Steve and the boys and I planted here got all mixed up with all the roots of the other families that God plopped down in the same place as us.
It's a beautiful thing to watch kids you've known since they were 7 years old or 3 years old or even newborn grow up and move on and try to find their way. Seems like everytime I get together with friends we go around the table giving updates on each and every kid. But for the kids themselves, the beauty and the joy of this time can get lost. Because there's a heck of a lot of fear that can swoop in to overshadow the excitement of a wide open world of possibilities.
We adults sometimes forget that most of us felt exactly the same way back then. I mean spending a Friday night drinking Zimas with the girls while we listened to our new Madonna CD and headed out the door in our blazers with massive shoulder pads was pretty freakin' cool, to be sure. But the rest of it? Terrifying.
Anyway, these kids/adults have been on my heart this week. If you know one of them, maybe this song will be a blessing to them. I truly believe if you're trusting Jesus to the very best of your ability (which, I admit, can be brutally difficult) you're going in the right direction. Sure it might seem like He's taking the long way when you're certain there had to have been a faster, smoother route. It might seem like He chose way too many bumpy, rough, dark roads. It might seem like everyone else you know found their way to a wide-open, smooth highway. But if we truly believe that He'll be there to turn us right or left or all the way around, then we just gotta keep on moving. Because He's going to use every difficult step to make us into the people He means for us to be.
It might seem crazy, but I really believe there is no wrong turn when you're walking with Jesus. There are just detours. And those detours can SUCK. It might seem like He led you one way and then ditched you. But I think He's still there working in ways we can't understand - probably weren't meant to understand.
Don't take it from me. Take it straight from Him:
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future."
Lookie, there, kids. It's right there in black and white. Jeremiah 29:11.
Have a blessed weekend. And Happy "Take a Breath" Saturday to most of the college football fans in the land. It's gonna be SO CHILL, man.
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