I asked Betty once if she ever went a day without makeup?
“No, I don’t. I’ve worn it every day since I was 14.” She even offered me the brand and color name of her lipstick. I’ve since forgotten if it was Revlon, Maybelline or L’Oreal Paris. Betty is 100. Tonight in our Bible Study we looked at Luke 2, where Anna (around 100 years old) lays eyes on Jesus. Betty reminds me of Anna in so many ways: they were both widowed young, both listening to the Holy Spirit’s leading, and active in the work of the Lord. Luke 2 says of Anna “she did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.” At the end of her life Anna could look back and see that what others probably called a waisted life (waiting for the coming Messiah) was a life well lived in eager anticipation of what God was going to do. Here, at the end of her life, Betty can look back and know that all these years serving God and others in the church is not only not wasted, it is a full and fruitful life lived for her Maker. Every day lived for Jesus. Every day with lipstick on.
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