Recently I’ve realized that so much of my life involves restoration of something. For years I’ve wondered how effective it would be to dye a few old pairs of jeans. So I finally tried it. Below are some pictures. The process didn’t eliminate paints spots, but what I was wanting was to cover the brownish oil stains on the thighs. I think it did that. In the first picture, my youngest son is digging a flat place for the fire.
Thinking about a Bible verse, I remembered the passage from Mark chapter 9, where Jesus is glorified in front of a few apostles:
“And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.”
A fuller was one who made clothes whiter, not dyed them. But it’s the first thing I thought of, There is of course the favorable account of Lydia, who was a seller of Purple, which was either a dye or expensive cloth. Here’s part of the account in the book of Acts. She was among people worshiping God by the river, but who didn’t know about Jesus:
(Acts 16:14 [KJV])
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
