Diamonds

I've always been a pearl girl.

But today I've been thinking about diamonds.

Setting aside the ideas of engagement rings (and the slave-labor often used to create them) I've been thinking about the diamond itself.

I think a diamond is the perfect picture of an Christian woman.

It's strength, beauty and transparency all wrapped up together.

When you consider that every diamond was once coal that underwent immense pressure and heat to turn into a clear substance. Miners must removed 250 tones of earth to find one 1-carat stone. Then the stone is cut in precise ways by a master stonecutter so that light can shine through and reflect off of the transparent surface. A thing formed from undesirable circumstances, cleansed, cut and used to sparkle and reflect light onto others. At the same time, it is the strongest substance on earth.

That sounds like what God does with a woman.

Sounds like what he's doing with me.