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Nails, and How my Brain Turned That to a Bible Verse


Yesterday I went and got my nails done.  I love getting my nails done.  I love the way that they look after they are finished and how I feel like something other than “just mom” after I get them done.  As I was going through my day yesterday before I went to get them done in the evening, I bent one of them completely backwards!  OUCH!!!  For those of you that have ever had fake nails, you know how extremely painful this can be.  The plastic/ acrylic that is on your nails digs into your real nail and leaves quite the mark. 

Since I am in a wedding this weekend, I wanted my nails to be perfect and to have a french manicure done to look as elegant as possible, but now I would have this bright red/bruised section in the middle of my middle finger nail.  I went to go and get my nails “filled” in (where they add acrylic to the bottom part that has grown out since you had them done last).  It was very painful having the bottom of the fake nail removed with my freshly injured nail being exposed to friction, heat, cold and all sorts of pain.  Finally, when it was said and done, the man had finished my nails and they looked good, but I didn’t like the fact that my one nail was very ugly- so I asked for him to do a design on it.  A flower was soon painted on and then red stripes and glitter.  The overall look is amazing and I couldn’t have been happier.

How often does God work great things through our pain?  He can bring beauty from something that we thought was going to be terrible.  I was thinking about the song, “Beauty From Ashes” and googled where it was found in the Bible and this is what came up.  How beautiful is this, and how ironic that it came from a broken nail?!

Isaiah 61:1-3

New International Version (NIV)

The Year of the Lord’s Favor

61 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
    because the Lord has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
    to proclaim freedom for the captives
    and release from darkness for the prisoners,[a]
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor
    and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,
3     and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
    instead of ashes,
the oil of joy
    instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
    instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
    a planting of the Lord
    for the display of his splendor.

God can take whatever situation you are in and make it beautiful, and He will.  He will take the despair and give you a garment of praise.  He will take those who grieve and give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes (how they would mourn by putting ash on their face).  God can turn any situation around.  You just have to trust and let Him. 

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