Beautiful flowers.

Hey girls! I was just thinking today, looking at the wonderful shirts Miss Litton made, and was thinking about the best way to look at this upcoming school year. There are so many ways to see this amazing ministry. Today was such a beautiful day, the sun shining bright, and the colors of nature are just so striking. It is amazing how beautiful God has made things, and how beautiful people can create landscapes and gardens to be. In a cheesy way of its own, our look at this ministry should be like growing a garden of flowers. The hall will be made up of mostly freshman, and some may or may not have even really understood what it means to be in a godly relationship with the Creator of the universe. As it should be, it seems too big for them, and even us to fathom. I pray that our hall will be receptive and teachable, but we will not know until the school starts. I encourage you to continue to pray for the girls in your group, maybe even individually. Although we don't know their names, we can number them! haha.

Back to the garden thing, we should think of the different ways that we will plant those seeds of growth in these girls, whether they know God or not. It is a fresh start to a new season in their life, and we are the cultivators of new spiritual growth for them. Christ is the ultimate Cultivator, but He is using every one of us to help them to grow and become the beautiful women that He wishes for them to be. I was reading Galatians 5 today, and it talked about the fruits of the Spirit. If you look at each of the 9 characteristics God commands us to have, they are so beautiful! When you meet women who have even one of those traits, you can't help but think how beautiful she is. We all want that. Many of those traits can be cultivated in your girls by encouraging them in their walk, making God's word exciting and helping them to want more and more of it. God has given you a passion for the Word and His work, our job is to help the girls to gain such a passion. We will be able to accomplish so much this year if we keep in mind that these seeds being planted will produce such beauty that the body cannot contain it. We are Daughters of Design, His design, and with the Holy Spirit in us, we are Daughters of Beauty when we reflect His fruit.

This note is a bit out of order I think, haha. I just got a bit worked up and went in all kinds of directions, and I apologize, but the main idea of it is to be excited! Be excited about the proverbial garden that will be planted in your prayer groups and in the leadership. Be excited about the beauty that will unfold in every room and be exuded all over campus. We will have the most gorgeous girls because they will reflect God's awesomeness in themselves. Oh man, and we will too! Keep praying for your girls, and we will continue to be praying for you!