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these areas in my own life. My daughter was a big time tomboy, and to see her in her
covering and dress now is more beautiful than I can describe to you here. My heart
overflows with joy when I see her. She has such a tender heart toward God and always
wants to be pleasing to Him.
Dresses were the hard thing for me to start wearing. When I started covering I was
wearing shorts and pants. Boy, what a walking contradiction I was, and I did not even know
it. Though I do remember that as the summer went on that my shorts felt like they got
shorter and shorter. That was just the way that the Father dealt with me and allowed me to
become more conscious of my clothes and the call to modesty.
The sad thing in all this is that the biggest critics have been other believers. The
covering stirs something in them that they don't want to deal with. It represents things that
they do not want to hear about and have not heard talked about in the church. It is funny,
because without them knowing all that it is about, they (other women) are made mad by it.
A few months back we were at a gathering and, as we walked up, my hubby and I were
standing outside and I happened to look inside the building and this guy who I knew saw
me and he turned to his wife and then they both turned and looked at me. Both of them had
this disgusted look on their faces. They were not happy people. I feel sorry for them. This
reminded me of a Mennonite pastor that I heard on a tape one time that said when you start
covering get ready to be persecuted.
The covering speaks so loudly to the women of this day who are not walking in the
place that God has prepared for them; submission to their own husbands, covering and
modesty. My life has been radically changed through learning submission to my husband,
wearing the covering and dressing modestly. I NEVER want to go back to the old way things
used to be. There is NO going back.
Tony Herrin (written 4-27-03)

We truly were in a time of new beginnings in our home. It had been many months
since God had told me that He would change the heart of my wife, and from the time in
Payne City when the Holy Spirit said He would set our household in order. We were still
seeing these changes come, and each change contributed to the atmosphere of peace, joy
and righteousness in our home.
I had never nagged my wife concerning her wearing the Christian woman’s veiling, but
I had shared with her from the beginning of our marriage those things that the Scriptures
taught on this matter. I had encouraged her on a couple occasions to begin this practice, but
when she was unwilling I had let the matter drop.
It would do little good for a woman to practice such Christian ordinances under
compulsion, for the headcovering is supposed to be a testimony of what is in the heart of
a Christian woman. When I thought of trying to coerce my wife into wearing a headcovering
I was reminded of the cartoon of a little boy who was forced to sit in a corner because of
misbehavior. The little boy said, “I may be sitting down on the outside, but I am standing
up on the inside.” I did not want my wife to wear the headcovering out of compulsion,
desiring instead that there should be a harmony between her inner person and her outer
witness.
I was so blessed the first time I saw my wife come into a room with a headcovering on.
I was amazed at what the Spirit had been doing in her life as she explained to me what He
had spoken to her. It was an added blessing when she began wearing dresses. I had told
Tony when we were first married that I thought it was right for women to wear feminine