redemption

i flipped open my laptop yesterday to find this charming image as my desktop wallpaper

the resident 17 year old had replaced my very calming seashore image

with her own special shot

incidentally 

that's exactly how i felt today

here's a redemptive

non crossed eyed shot..

btw, her tshirt says quidditch (aka harry potter game) just in case ....

much cuter

yes?

anyway

woke up today & felt honestly as if i'd been run over

yesterday was one of those days where i coulda used a few more hours in my day 

parenting teenagers

multiple teenagers

female teenagers

is a glorious rewarding humorous painful humbling experience

since i uploaded my pics out of order

i'll pause here & give a shout out to a precious friend

who sent a  little mailbox love yesterday

& no lie

that made my day

and of course since i'm still practicing with iso and aperture

i took a pic

i'm such a dork

but seriously

check it out....a lipstick brand named l'paige

& yes i have been known to wear some bright pink lipstick

thankyouverymuch

but a little love reminder from a woman

who i respect

who has been there done that

really cheered me up

so today i figured i'd fire up the blender

& make a healthy blueberry, spinach, strawberry, pineapple

protein powder, acai berry, flax seed, agave nectar smoothie

i needed some energy of course

after giving ya'll a recipe that included gag me now processed cheese

& butter

i felt i needed to redeem myself

perhaps i made a little too much?

 two fisted drinker today

caffeine in one hand & serious super fruit goodness in the other

speaking of redemption

i want to introduce you to someone

you might already know her

if not

her name is rahab

& she's a prostitute

that's right

a prostitute

a prostitute that God chose to change the course of history somewhere around 1400 BC

moses has died & now joshua is leading the isrealites into the promised land

joshua sends spies to scope out the land

they ended up shacking up at rahab's place

not likely to be found there , right?

well

rahab's heart was sensitive to God

she saw a God who had protected His people

in miraculous ways

her town, the town of jericho was mighty afraid of this god & his people

she ends up believing in Him more than she fears for herself

she hides the spies

risking her own life

but asks that they show kindness on her family

she drops a scarlet cord for the spies to escape

which would be the symbol to keep that home safe when the spies and their armies came back to attack

a foreshadowing the blood shed by christ

when joshua's troops came

rahabs entire family was saved

her life was forever changed that day

& so was history

rahab

the former prostitue

....i love this part....

later bears a son, boaz ( kinsmen redeemer) husband of ruth

the ruth

the where you go i will go ruth

your people will be my people ruth

ruth & boaz have a son named obed

who fathers a son jesse

jesse had many sons

one of which was king david

did you catch that?

KING david

prostitute rahab ,now redeemed, is a key player in a royal lineage

that turns out to be the royal lineage

great great grandmother of kind david

love it!!

fast forward several generations

....now this is my fave part...

"and jacob the father of joseph, the husband of mary

father of jesus"

KING jesus

seriously?

i am blown away

our God can take any one

their past, their sins, their whatever

to accomplish His will

i looked up redeem in the dictionary

it means =buy back, pay off, make up for

wow

this is one of my mother in law's bibles

full of notes

full of prayers

full of a legacy of a woman who also loved her lord

& i was reminded of her today

as i read in her bible these words about rahab...

"she did not let fear

affect her faith

in God's ability to deliver"

feeling overwhelmed today

& feeling slap wore out today

i pray that i know in my own heart

& i effectively teach my teenage daughters

that no sin, no past, no failure

will ever keep them from the love of God

ever

ps...you can follow that story about my awesome hero rahab in joshua chapter 2.
the lineage of Christ is in matthew chapter 1

may you be blessed today
oh pss...for some weirdo reason, i think blogger is acting up and adding an occasional comment a couple of times, hence the deleted comments.  :)