The Mess that Leads to Beauty Are you a fan of home makeover shows? I am. My favorite was Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I loved to watch Ty Pennington and his team transform an unsuitable home into an intentionally thought-out, strategically orchestrated, meticulously redesigned, and perfectly-suited model home for a well-deserving family. Well, a couple of years ago, God let me know it was time for an extreme makeover in my own life. One day, He allowed a life-time of deep, buried pain to erupt within me with the force of a volcano. In the midst of the agonizing sobs which followed, the Lord whispered to my soul, "I am going to remodel you." Instantly an image from a movie, Home Alone 2, came to mind. Lost in New York City, Macaulay Culkin locates the house of an aunt and uncle. He discovers it is vacant, in the throws of a major renovation. Suddenly I knew, things would get worse before they got better. Ironically, since then,...