My sweet husband, knowing that I'm always looking for beauty topics to write about, picked up a magazine for me the other day.  The magazine is In Touch, and the headline is "100 Stars without Makeup."  It was pretty neat to see all the faces of these gorgeous, glamourous women stripped down to their bare skin.  Some of them still looked beautiful.  Others looked like a normal, every day person, many of which I didn't even recognize.  A few didn't look too great.   It's amazing how much makeup can alter your appearance.  And it made me start thinking about how appearances are so deceiving.

Right now, my life is on a little bit of a roller coaster.  I can't go into detail, but I can tell you that I have a lot of ups and downs.  Some days I am convinced that things are going to end up how I want them to go, and other days I just feel disappointed and scared that they won't.  The reality - the part that I'm really trying to grasp and learn - is that God is at work in my circumstances whether I see it or not.  It doesn't matter how it appears to me, He is working it out, just as He wants it to go.  So even when things aren't looking good for me, when I'm feeling low, or scared, or disappointed, I can at least have  peace knowing that even though it seems bleak, God is still at work.  And He will continue to be at work, no mater what I'm feeling.

Romans 8:28

New International Version (NIV)

 ²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who^[a] have been called according to his purpose.