Electricbones’s Weblog

okay… so im not one to go to a hair salon or have a perfect hair cut so i just do it myself. i chop at it when im bored and thin it out and fix things… but i think it has come to a point where i just am practically making this stuff on top of my head what i was most adament against making it, almost an idol really. funny how that happens.

so tomorrow im off to get it properly fixed (yes! by a stylist!) and chopped so that i will not fuss over it for a while. i dont think i have spent money on a hair cut in almost three years.

i do wonder what other things we fight so hard against conforming to that begin to define us (trying so hard NOT to wear what everyone else does… trying so hard to be different)… rather than letting what we are striving for define us.

Thinking of this…these verses popped into my head from 1 Peter…

3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. 4Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful.

This is such a beautiful example (i think it can also really speak to men too) about where we have to be putting our hope. We just have to. Jesus is really calling us to this idea of surrender of ourselves (constant and daily destruction and reconstruction of what we are living for) to a life that He is calling us to.

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in other randomness… while watching American Gangster over break there was a pretty raunchy sex scene. My friend Andrew (who I lovingly call “Dad” and who now has even more recognition to the name because of this) put his hands over my eyes during it and made me plug my ears… it mostly made me giggle… but honestly, I really respected him for doing that. It was really selfless and he had total respect for upholding my purity, especially when oftentimes we don’t even seem to think about what we let into our eyes and ears. Sometimes for women I think we feel like a guy who wants to only protect and respect us (heh no rhyme intended) we twist his intentions around to make him seem like someone who wants us to remain ignorant. So so untrue, ladies.