Last wed. Night at church the sermon was about the Prayer veiling. Our pastor has taught on this subject before, but he was just bringing it up again. In 1Cor. 11 from about verse 1-16 it talks about the covering or veiling.

(I hope I can say all this in a way that you understand.)

Verses 3-16 say 3. But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is the God.  4. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered dishonoureth his head.  5. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 7.  For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 9. Niether was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. 11. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. 13. Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 14. Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him? 15. But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. 16. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

It says that the order of leadership is God, Christ, Man, Woman. So we are to submit to our husbands/ or in my case my Dad, and he is to submit to Christ and God.  

It also says that if we don’t cover for prayer and prophesy it is the same as if we would shave our heads, and if it is a shame to be shorn or shaven then we need to cover. The man is the glory of God so if he covers he is dishonoring God; we are the glory of the man, so if we don’t cover we are dishonoring our husbands or Dads. (And God.) Woman was made for the man, not the other way around!

 Verse 14 asks if nature doesn’t teach us that long hair on a man is a shame to him. I agree totally, it just doesn’t look right for a guy to have long hair.  

Another thing, it says to cover our hair, that doesn’t mean just half ways does it?? What we (Mom, Serena and I.) wear is a lacy sort of material, (not that all we wear is lacy, but it stays on better and we just like the design and stuff.) and some materials are too thin so we made it double because it is see-through and that isn’t really covering either if you can still see your hair!! We have a few different shapes or patterns that we like, one is sorta like scarf, but it is more the shape of our head, straight in the front and rounded in the back. It isn’t like huge either, but it is big enough to cover our hair when it is up in a bun or something. We wear it when we pray and worship God, like by singing. We also wear it during church, because you are praying and singing and giving the glory to God during church.

            Well I hope I explained everything so that you can understand what I mean. And I don’t want to offend anyone, but this is our belief and just wanted everyone to know about my big step in life! Pray for me about it, I know that mom sorta paved the way for Serena and I a long time ago, Grandpa’s didn’t like it when she started to wear it this way and now that they have accepted her wearing it this way hopefully they won’t say much about us doing the same. And it will be hard sometimes doing something that no one else in our family does, we might get some stares during prayer or whenever we have it on!!

   Well thank you for listening to me, everyone have a fun Memorial Day.    
                       -%-@ Amber @-%-