What Makes a Woman Beautiful: A Man’s Perspective
Husbands love your wives Even as Christ also loved the church And gave himself for it (Ephesians 5:25) These words were Paul’s somewhat simple instructions for the church. Perhaps he did this intentionally because he knew most men could only remember one thing on any list. How do we know that Christ loved the church? […]
I Am an Illegal Alien
This is a repost from last year on our curtisandceli blog. In honor of my father’s death on this day eight years ago, I am re-posting it. I wish I could tell you whether I’m for or against illegal immigration. I believe many people come here illegally because they feel they have few options for […]
I’m Not in Love with Jesus Anymore
Gone are youthful days of weighty sighs and swoops of passion focused upward toward a deity I could not take down from the throne. A little jesus reduced to an idol with no voice on a man-made pedestal. A false god I invented to suit my needs left me spent and breathless. Yet Christ has […]
Becoming Beautiful
For many years I didn’t know I was beautiful. I felt so different from other girls and women that I assumed people would stare at me because I was weird, not because I was intriguing or pretty. I had curly hair, and I wanted it to be sleek and straight. I was short and curvy […]
Curly Queued: Quick Hair Tutorial
As I’ve mentioned before, I have wrestled with my Latina hair for years: tugging, straightening, relaxing…poor fluffy poof! It has taken many years to learn how to tame my hair without completely erasing my ethnicity and damaging it in the process. I have to say, there’s a message here for all of us: You […]
Winter Blah’s: 4 Fashion Fibs Debunked
I don’t know about you, but this weather is dragging me up and down with each random peak and pit of the temps. One day it’s below zero, the next it’s fifty-five degrees. The earth is so bipolar right now. Couple that with the anniversary of some difficult life events: my father’s death eight years […]
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