Saturday, January 31, 2009

How do you become beautiful

It happened again that the new child who's coming in to my class this tues is in line with Pastor sermon( the story of Isaac) Yep, my boy's name is Isaac. It happened the last month when Pastor preached on zoe life and my Supervisor msg me after service that the new gal coming the following day was Zoe =) Looks like the children's name I've been receiving has been in line with Pastor's sermon. Who knows next week sermon will be on wholeness. A new girl called Emma is coming haha...
I had my school cny gathering cum training and lunch yest. I sat next to my boss during lunch and learnt something about her I never did knew. They played the Bingo game and she's the only one who could sign on one of the boxes which wrote [Costume design a set of Jewellery and bag for the first lady, Mrs.Nathan] 
When I saw that, I was utterly amazed. I heard she was good in sewing but for the first lady?
How did you do it? It's my hobby...(Hobby??)
She even showed me pictures of it taken nine years ago.
This was taken before Samuel was born
Presently she has four kids, a four storey house, principal running two centres, full time job, taking up a part-time degree course, and has no maid.
I thought to myself then. How do you define hobby. Isnt' hobby something you do during your free time. Where do you find time. I remember sharing abt my boss to my 2 cg guys and they were so inspired they wanted to meet her and said to themselves they should stop complaining for lack of time. I like what one of them said. I only manage a career and a room but she... haha.How true. That's the power of a woman of God. They can multitask really well. Hehe.
But what I'm about to share was something the Lord showed me as I opened up a book to read that night and ponder over all these.
"She perceives that her merchandise is good, and her lamp does not go out by night. She stretches out her hands to the distaff, and her hands holds the spindle." Proverbs 31:18,19
When evening arrives, God's beautiful woman shifts her activities from outside her field to inside her home where she works by lamplight. Yes, she's put in a long day, but she keeps on working in the evening. In her day it was perfectly natural and permissible to retire when night fell, but our heroine stays up to work...just a little longer...So God's beautiful woman willingly, heartily, and gladly (vs.13) spends her evenings doing the tedious, unexciting--but very necessary--work from which great works are born. (Elizabeth George)
I remember her telling me once that she got up at 2am to do gardening! I shudder at the thought of it. Heh. I've always thought of my mum as the Prov 31 women in my life too. Now that I read this verse, the picture I see of my mum was a woman who was constantly at work with her hands. All the curtains, cushion cover, bedsheets were sewn by her. She holds many responsibility in church. As a cg leader, worship leader, children church teacher, senior fellowship, social concern. It would be six ministry all together haha..
Just caught this. When I look at my boss or even my mum at how impossible it is to be like them, when I read of Proverbs 31 and often picture it to the people I admire, I realised that God has given this same ability in us(woman), moreso a mum to do what He has design her to be. And when she does it, she becomes beautiful. Think of a mother figure you admire in your life and check if she carries the role of a Proverb 31 woman. Your answer would probably be yes. It's almost impossible to have true beauty without 'doing' anything. A woman becomes beautiful when she does what a woman/mum is called to do(be). Another thing I caught :) What were Rebekah and Ruth doing when they met their future husband to be. They were living the role of a woman. They weren't chopping trees =p or ever were they business woman...but Jesus calls them beautiful =) or it'll catch someone's eye heh.
Who knows, every time you help your mum wash the dishes, sweep the floor, water the plants...you bring forth a radiance in your countenance ;) and to your love ones around you. I was not meant to write this. Heh~Something new I learned too=D

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