What the Heck are we Doing??

While most of you who read this already know a lot of what is happening with Refined Beauty I just wanted to take a moment to share what is going on and the things that God has been speaking to us.

So due to a lack of students and a need for more preparation time we are not running a training school in March as originally planned. So we will be doing some more recruiting as well as ministering and doing outreaches using cosmetology.

We want to establish 3 consistent outreaches that the students that do come to the school can just walk into and be a part of without a lot of effort. Due to the fact that the ultimate goal of this school is to begin a ministry having consistent outreaches throughout the city is really important.

Throughout this time and this process God has been reminding us to be completely dependent on him and his vision. When we have God sized visions we have to rely completely on him in order to see it completed. The idea for the Refined Beauty DTS and the Beauty from ashes ministry is definitely from God that has been confirmed time and time again. As we began to so more ministry and share more of our vision with people we began to have a desire to make it happen no matter the cost. We were diving in head first and doing everything we could. While this seems like a great thing in the end we lost sight of the fact that while this is our life, it is only our life because God has ordained it to be. We need, need, need to remain at his feet, to know where he is taking us and this ministry.

So please be praying for us as we go forward. That he would lead us and that we would remain surrendered. That everything we do would not be in our own strength but in his.

So Cold it burns

I am sitting at the computer and have been trying to write this post on and off for a good portion of the day. I write for a minute and then delete what I have written.

Words are eluding me today I know what is on my head and in my heart but the ability to communicate is just not coming to me. But here goes nothing I apologize in advance if it is a but scattered.

So due to the ministries that I have been involved in and the ministry with women and girls of all walks of life this concept of being "hot" and "sexy" and all of our movies and commercials and TV and everything else that promotes this "hot". This hot is so much a part of our lives that we as christians even forget how damaging it is.. 

It is all so empty and cold. Sex and being sexy is meant to be this intimate and personal thing and yet so often since the beginning of time it becomes this supply and demand mentality. Which is so far from God's design that rather than us seeing the sex industry as a perverted damaging thing we view his design as unrealistic or unnatural. 

Have you ever touched something that was frozen or super cold and metal, and had that burning sensation? When things are that cold and if you let it stay that way you go numb and then get frostbite which can lead to the loss of appendages or even limbs.

That is what this version of "hot" is. Rather than actually being hot it is so cold that it burns. we then become so numb and desensitized that we forget that we are loosing parts of who we were created to be. My encouragement and purpose in this is to pray for those that are loosing who they are. That are allowing the cold to trick them into thinking it is heat. For the men and women caught up in this industry or this lifestyle. Because while they believe themselves to be burning with passion the reality is that they have severe frostbite.