October 24, 2006
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My Search for a Dress
“And why worry about your clothes?
Look at the field lilies! They don’t worry about theirs.”
Matthew 7:28
My son is getting married in December. I’ve been looking for a dress to wear for several months. It’s been a struggle to find something in between frumpy and slutty. Something between dowdy and “how-dy!”. Something between a potato sack and a pretty slip. A dress that fit and was fitting.I’ve shopped locally, I’ve shopped at the big cities 2 1/2 hours away. My MIL and DIL (who both have better tastes and ideas about clothes than I) have each taken up the cause: one looking through piles of catalogs and the other spending hours surfing the web. My usual nonchalant attitude evaporated as the countdown to the big day continued.
I’ve prayed before in general “Lord help us” prayers; it was time to get specific. Friday night I started praying intentionally for a dress that was 1) under $100, 2) beautiful, and 3) modest.
Yesterday my mother-in-law burst in my front door so full of excitement. She had found a dress in a catalog that she thought would work. As she was picking up a catalog order in our small department store she mentioned how beautiful this particular dress was. The lady behind the counter stared at my mother-in-law and said, “That dress was just returned today. I’ll be shipping it back tomorrow, but if your DIL wants to buy it today she could.” One dress, my size, one day, here in my small town. I went down, tried it on and it was perfect! Thank you Lord!
Comments (9)
God is good! I love it when He does things like that.
You know, Carol, this just made me plain teary-eyed. That is so wonderful that the Lord used your dear MIL to answer your prayer. I remember when our oldest dd got married and how evasive those “under $100, beautiful, and modest” dresses were.
I’m looking forward to these pre-wedding updates! And pictures afterwards!
Janie
Thanks, Carrie and Janie for your comments. You can see the dress at jcpenney.com. Click on women’s, click on bridal shop, click on mother of the bride and that’s the dress. It’s bronze and goes well with my red hair.
And my first thought on reading this was “God is good!” He surely does answer prayer, and if one were to doubt that, this is a wonderful example of the ways He does. I am so happy for you that you have this challenge solved in such a beautiful way.
Carol, I went to the web page and looked at the dress. It is absolutely gorgeous! Looking forward to pictures of you wearing it.
Oh, so elegant! The color is yours!
Thanks for sharing, Carol.
Dittos from GA. This is some special praise report!!!
Dittos from GA. This is some special praise report!!!
You are so fortunate! I, too, looked for weeks and pondered for months before that…Thank the Lord you won’t have another wedding in June and need to procure a summer version of the mother of the groom dress! Twice a year is too hard.
May God bless all the various plans that are now being set into play for this wedding!