There is something about my mom's place that just makes me breathe easy. It's not the "house", it's her home... wherever she is. If I could bottle the smell and just open it when I'm stressed, I would. I could go to bath and body and buy one of those flower thingies she uses but... it just wouldn't be the same. My my mom is a minimalist, no clutter, no "stuff", just a home. Warm and cozy. There's always coffee for which I'm VERY grateful but to be honest that is only a slight reason I love going over there. It's 100% better when she is there of course but when she is not, somehow I still feel welcome. She sends me these txts like "is veg soup ok?". Well, heck yeah!!! Our school is walking distance from her house so on Mondays she will make us lunch or we will just raid her fridge ha. My mom loves wind chimes, she has 2 beautiful ones on her back patio. The other day it was so windy and they were singing beautifully!
As I often do when I go to my mom's, I find myself in the bathroom. No, not for the reason you think. I have a love/hate relationship with my mom's close-up mirror. She has good lighting and a magnified mirror and well... I have a slight "issue" with... Ok... let's just bare it all here... I have a unibrow. It's something I lovingly inherited from my dad's side of the family. My uncle, bless him, had one long brow, bushy and beautiful :)
Since I'm not fond of bushy and beautiful I try to keep mine plucked. I was standing in her bathroom and I began to think "WHY do I do this to myself, why do I keep coming back in here, get her tweezers (which are ALWAYS in the same place) and torture myself???" Then... God began to speak to me. Joy, it's not easy when you CHOOSE to draw close and let the Light shine. I've found in my walk with Christ as I begin to draw close to Him and invite him in every area of my life, it hurts sometimes. He lovingly reveals my "unibrow" that needs to be taken care of. What is it that draws me back? Why do I continue to go back to His Word and seek Him? Because, He is making my insides beautiful. He reveals truth. He allows me to see those really long wirey hairs that need to be pulled haha That's a terrible picture but it's true! When I leave my mom's bathroom, I walk with confidence, knowing that for the remainder of the day I am unibrow free. When I draw close to God and let Him "search me and know me" I can walk away confident of this very thing that He who began a good work in me will complete it! Phil 1:6
