A Hair Experiment

Sometimes I get a little tired of the same ol' same ol' when it comes to my hair.
So this afternoon, after taking a very relaxing bath...I spent some time in front of the mirror playing.
I'd been surfing pinterest and the blogs linked to them and got some inspiration...

I took a whole lot bobby pins...

Yes, I used ALL of these!

 Used a dab of gel and then twisted and pinned them to the top of my head until I came up with this...

It looked better in person.

Charming, yes?

(Every now and then yelling from the bathroom, "Honey! Come look! Did I miss anything?")

After finishing the pinning, I waited about 2 hours, then took a diffuser and blow dryer to finish off the drying process (my hair takes FOREVER to dry), pulled out the bobby pins and got this!!

Curls!

It wasn't exactly what I was looking for but it was fun to experiment!

And hey, even Chris liked it. :)

The Unloved One...

I can't help but repost this....it's one of my most thought-provoking posts and I just love it.

Wednesday, 14 November 2007

The Unloved One.....

So I was thinking about how in Genesis there was a man who loved a girl. Yes, he did. He worked 7 years for that girl....and he ended up with the wrong one. Thus, he worked another 7 years for that girl....and he ended up with two wives. What a lucky guy.

But this man loved one of his wives and not the other one. Sad day.

I feel sorry for Leah...yes, Leah...Jacob's wife.

A lot of people have some sort of bitterness for the Leah of the Bible. Like it was her choice to let her father trick Jacob into marrying her before marrying Rachel. Thus making Jacob work another 7 years for Rachel again.

A little hard work never hurt anyone.

Did anyone ever think of the way that Leah might feel about this? I mean, back then women didn't really have much of a choice in the matters of anything, right? What about Leah? She had to obey her father....she probably didn't even want to marry Jacob. I'll bet he wasn't even cute. Yet, she had to and he did not love her. She could've found someone who loved her. She gave birth to many children of a father who did not love her. What a shame. How do you think that made her feel? Here she is giving birth to many many sons and the father of her children doesn't love her....and he treats those sons differently than he treats the offspring of him and Rachel.

How rude.

Leah....the unloved one. I feel sorry for her. I would have hated to be Leah back then.

EDIT: So I was talking to David about this today...and we went through and discussed the first four sons of Leah....

Genesis 29:
31 When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. 32 Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, "It is because the LORD has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now." 33 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Because the LORD heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too." So she named him Simeon. 34 Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." So he was named Levi.
35 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "This time I will praise the LORD." So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

If you notice, every time she had a son she thought to herself, "Maybe my husband will love me now." Then at verse 35 she gave birth to Judah and praised the Lord....and then she stopped having children and her sister was very jealous of her.

Do you know that the line of Judah is where Jesus comes from???

Yes, that's right....Leah's son Judah is an ancestor of Jesus.

What now Laban, Jacob and Rachel?