Pink Pearls / Glorious Living

Pink is a pale red color.

The use of the word for the color was first recorded in the late 17th century, describing a specific flower in a garden as "pinks", flowering plants in the genus Dianthus.

A pearl is a hard, generally spherical object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk.

A pearl forms when some irritant enters the mollusk shell. The mantle epithelium encloses the irritant in a sac and secretes layers of nacre, or pearl, around the particle in concentric layers.  The oyster makes something beautiful out of a problem.

Matthew 13: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

Last night I received a gift from a dear friend,

a gift that is pink - celebrating me and all the other women were are healed or are healing from breast cancer. Or who are GOING to be healed in the present!

a gift that is pearls - the really cool biological feat that oysters do when they have something inside their shell that irritates, they build layers around it so they can go on happily with their lives. Happy as clams, or oysters..

a gift that is pearls - representing God's Kingdom available for us, worth every penny, every minute, every ounce of energy.. for God's Kingdom in all its glory and splendor.

a gift that is a gift - given because they care. She wears one too. I'm not in this alone. You all are showing me that. I'm learning. Mike's learning. Lessons of the heart and soul.

P.S. Here's where she bought my pink pearl bracelet ... they are absolutely beautiful pearls ... I want to wear something pink, and this is the perfect thing.  So so so cool!
Robert David Pearls.  www.robertdavidpearls.com

Ephesians 1 (The Message)
It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. 
Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.

40 days of wandering

A day with L doing whatever I wanted - we went to the Millenia Mall, bought some short sleeved button down tops so I will be cool in the summer. It was so much fun, the time flew by, we talked and ate lunch. What a hoot.

Here’s one e-mail I just sent to a friend who's just moved:

We all need sometimes to feel sad by ourselves.

Change is never easy.

I am allowing myself five percent of the time to be sad and in the dumps and why me, the other ninety-five percent it is:  I CAN DO THIS, GOD IS THE BEST... Maybe J is having one of those days, so I pray for him to come out the other side and feel comfort of your presence and his new surroundings.

I bought myself a small white and white bracelet today. That will be my salute to all people who have something breaking their heart in a big or small way every day, which includes all of us... I am usually not drawn to things like this, but it came to me walking by the store window.

You know, you get so much support and encouragement going through breast cancer treatment, which I TRULY TRULY appreciate, but I want to tell people, everyone needs to be encouragement because everyone has something they are battling.

Off to cook dinner. Yes, trying to be healthier. THREE vegetables tonight...