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It is too late at night! Another one of those late nights, lying in bed, waiting for my thoughts to slow down. I do not often get a good night sleep on Saturday nights. All of the sugar from Sabbath fellowship goes through my veins and keeps my mind racing and my heart pumping. I guess I will take advantage of the energy and share a testimony, as I said before, I have many.

10 years ago my husband interviewed for a youth pastor position at a conservative Anabaptist church. I live in Northern Indiana and there is a pretty large community of Anabaptist; Mennonites, Amish, ect. This particular church, the church of the Brethren, came out of Germany around the same time as the Mennonites and settled in Pennsylvania. There are a few distinctives in Anabaptist believers. For the most part, we are pacifist, we try to live simple lives, we are less evangelical and the outward appearance is pretty important, not in a vain way but in a pious way. One of the most obvious forms of our outward expression comes right out of 1 Corinthians 11, a little hat that the ladies and sometimes children, wear on their head.

The Amish have been very good about trying to stay true to there pious garb and for the most part they set themselves apart from the rest of the world. The Mennonites and the Brethren have gone much more main stream and have become more liberal in their thinking. Many  ladies  have thrown out their dark shapeless dresses for fashion and have tossed there little hats, or coverings, for short goofy haircuts. This was done to appeal more to the masses, in hopes that they might grow.  Also, because they were tired of living under the thumbs of the men in  churches. We found the Church of the Brethren through a very liberal church and only saw the head coverings come out a couple times a year at communion. But in the church Larry interviewed, they wore them every meeting.

It was different that this new church wore a covering but I guess it was Biblical. I was trying very hard to follow the Bible, I knew very little but I knew if the Bible said so and theologians agreed, I needed to do whatever it took to be a good Christian. I have always been strong willed and I told my husband that I wasn't sure about those silly things. I also told him there was no way I was wearing one just so he could get a job. I would really have to pray and read and feel lead that it truly was scripture and not just a tradition.

So I prayed and read in my immaturity.  I felt that it was truth and that it needed to be done. It was a good thing I came to that conclusion because Larry was offered the job.  Now it would be expected of me. In the mean time, we still had about 3 months in the current church he was serving. This church did not practice the covering, in fact, there were some that were very much against wearing it. They had seen many woman oppressed and abused in the name of the covering. They must submit, it is all about submission right?......no, but I'll speak to that later.

So what do I do in this three month transition period? It was December when I had the revelation to wear covering. I did what any "mature" Bible believer would do... I decided to make it my News Years Resolution to wear my head covering every Sunday morning. No matter what church I was attending.  I'm pretty sure that is how it was commanded in the Bible.  Don't worry about the rest of the week when you are not around church people, wear your covering every Sunday morning.  1 Hypocrite 1:1  

I was pretty close with the kids in the youth group at the church, I told them my conviction and told them that no matter what, come January first, I would start this practice of covering my head. Well the first Sunday in January came, then the second. One of the young girls, to whom I shared my conviction, asked me in a meeting why I wasn't wearing my covering.  I told her that I chickend out, I was afraid of the reaction I would get from the others at church.

Do you know what this 17 year old girls loving response to me was? .....let me see if I can remember all of what she said.  It went something like this.....BOOOOOOOO!! She booed me, not because she believed in the head covering but because I did not follow through with a conviction, even after making it known to others. She was so right, I love that girl.

This blog could go on forever, and it just may. I have so much to say on this topic....

to be continued...