Call & Response

The Call: Chopping Wood for the Fire — Cheryl

Henry worked very hard today. I just hope he’s not suffering for it tomorrow.

The Response: The Price of Beauty — Jessica

The night before school pictures, my mother would always wrap my hair in pink spongy curlers. When I would complain about it, she would tell me that “if you want to be beautiful you have to suffer a little bit.”

Today I finally went back to the hair salon and had my grey covered up again. I hate the smell and I hate sitting there for so long (it takes about 2.5 hours to do everything). So, I’m definitely still suffering for beauty’s (or vanity’s) sake.

But then again, maybe that saying isn’t quite so superficial: suffering has a way of uniting us with Christ and that always makes us more beautiful.