Several years back... actually more like 15 years ago... We won a few CD's in a contest from the local Chirstian music station and when we went by to pick them up on if them was a CD by a somewhat unknown artist named Jeni Varnadeau... My mother loved the title song of her album 'Colors of Truth' so it was one of the 5 CD's we choose to take home with us. There are several songs on that CD that still speak to me. But one the Lord has used allot to speak to me in the last few days is called Father knows best. I attached a player that should let you listen to it! The song speaks of a young lady who has been looking for a string of pearls the fake kind would do for her and her father give her the fake kind for her birthday and she wears them with pride and honor knowing that her father loves her and knows best. Then the next year for her birthday asks her to surrenderer the pearls she cherishes so much to him. though hesitant she does so and upon submitting them he hands her a string of real pearls. I have found myself in a place of surrendering many things I cherish to the My Father in heaven. Recently I have started learning how to use a camera that I had purchased as an investment into my photography business it is a crossover DSLR and from what I have been told a decently well known name although I had never heard of it and they actually no longer make cameras... And The more time I have invested in learning how to use it the more I have learned to love it. Now I have become rather attached to my well 'Fill in till I can afford a Nikon' camera (or my Fake string of Pearls!). After purchasing the camera for $100 I priced it on Amazon for Kicks... New one runs over $800 the lowest price used was $250! Wow I had been blessed with a great deal! A few months after I purchased it I hit one of my hardest financial times and decided to try and sell some stuff on Amazon. I posted it as well as some various DVD sets online. At that time the lowest used was posted at $300 and didn't come with the extra memory card and some of the other accessories were missing so I posted mine at $350... Since then I have sold the DVD's I posted but it has been a few months since then... About a month or so I started really investing my time in learning how to use it to the extent of asking for and receiving a larger memory card for it for Christmas ... In all honesty I had completely forgotten that I had posted it online to sell until yesterday when I got the email that said it was sold! So last night I packed up my Camera and sent it to someone in California who I hope will very much enjoy his "Like New" Camera. I am now out one fake string of pearls (The Camera) and richer in wisdom and a few hundred bucks which goes to saving. Lord just so its said I wouldn't mind a Nikon D90 or better(my version of a Real string of Pearls)!
God bless!
Alicia Zinn
