I was standing in front of my hallway mirror plucking my eyebrows this morning….well, actually I had stopped in front of the mirror to look at myself….I forget what I was originally stopping to look at….I guess my own beauty just absolutely stunned me into forgetfulness! Ha Ha Ha Ha HA!
Anyway, I noticed that I had a hair growing out of my chin….gotta love those rogue hairs….so I went and got my tweezers and figured that while I was there I might as well spend a few moments weed wacking at my eyebrows. Those suckers were taking over my forehead!
While standing there tweezing and thinking about how I hate plucking my eyebrows – I actually thought for one moment, “What if I just kept going and tweezed them ALL out? Then I would have to pluck even less often than I currently do…….”
Yah, I know! Can you even believe that I thought such a hideous thought? Can you imagine how weird I’d look with NO EYEBROWS!!!! Frankly, I’m a little surprised that the thought even crossed my mind. I quickly finished up and then “stepped away from the tweezers”.
In other news, I bought some yarn yesterday – $12.58 – for a birthday present.
I’ll show ya what I made next week after it’s all finished up.
Total is now up to $230.35.
Moving on…..I asked a question on Tuesday and I’m thrilled that Lala answered.
My question was…
Lise’s answer was……
… sometimes I do judge, if I am being honest, if people are really doing all they can do to earn a living. BUT I have so appreciated the gifts to us when we have had hard times and Jason gives regularly, it’s his gift! for me, if I have the cash and feel to give, then I do .
I ABSOLUTELY love the fact that she was honest about sometimes judging. I do the same thing.
This wasn’t a trick question to show how good or bad anyone was or is. I was really interested in what you all thought.
I do wonder, sometimes, what they are going to be doing with the money, and honestly – I’d rather take someone into the closest restaurant and buy them a meal….even if it’s more expensive that just giving them the $3.48 that was in my wallet.
I read a book over the summer and it really got me thinking.
It’s not even that I agree with or buy into ALL of what he says, but that I had to re-think my already shifting position on people.
People who need to be loved. People who are just like me.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what we “NEED” and what we “DESERVE” and what we “WANT”. How do things 3 things influence us? What is that I actually need? Why do I think I need it? Why do I think that I deserve something? Do I really deserve it? What makes me more deserving than my neighbor or a leader in my community or the homeless guy on the corner? Do I really need something or do I just want it? And is my wanting it reson enough to have it? Do I need excess?
So many things to think about?
In reading this book and really starting to think about different things, I started to want to just make a difference to the person in front of me. I might not be able to change the world, but I could possibly make a different in “someone’s” world.
It’s way easier to just throw money at someone and run away. It’s more difficult to “see” the hurting person in front of you and to “see” their pain and to recognize that they are no better or worse than you. It could be you. A few different choices made, and it could be you.
Would you want to have to live with the constant distain and disgust of those walking around you? Would that inpsire you to want to do something different with where you are at?
I know what it’s like to feel so down and discouraged that I had no energy to move from the dark place that I was into a better place. It took love and encouragement and someone loving me just for who I was and loving me where I was at, and in spite of where I was at, and just loving me and walking along side of me lending love, support, encouragement, a shoulder to cry on, an arm for support, an ear to listen to….It took LOVE!
I want to be able to show love. Even if it means stopping for 5 minutes and sitting down and just chatting and letting someone know that I see the real person. Asking their name. Finding out their story. I might not have the money to give every time I run across someone, but I can always give love.
I don’t have all the answers, and I don’t always have time…and sometimes, I just don’t have the energy. But I want to! I want to be able to give and share and love!
If you haven’t already read it, I’d suggest that you read the book. Not so that you can agree with everything in the book but see what stands out for you….see if it suggests some change or even if it just makes you think……
If you have read it, what did you think? What ways has it changed your thinking? Did you like it? What really stood out to you? Or did ya just not like it or care for it?
Let me know what you’re thinking?
I know we talked a lot about this book when we were at the cabin, and my book club may do it down the road which will be really interesting. For me I think I am resisting reading it cuz of not wanting the push to do more! hope that makes sense…but I think it will challenge me and I am not sure I am ready to walk into that challenge right now! how completely selfish is that???!!!!
Hey Girl….read the book – we did it as a book club in our church. Did I like it? yes and no. I felt there was alot of judgement about what ‘real’ Christianity is: eg. doing it his way. Some of the ways he used scripture concerned me, but he’s using them and seeing them, to back up his position – which is understandable…we all do it don’t we. I felt so much guilt and condemnation coming from his book – seriously – and I really had to work thru feeling like I’m not doing enough, not giving enough, not helping enough…and finally decided that I would just look for what God wanted to say to me out of it. I come from the same denominational background as he does, and I think that could be ‘why’ I picked up on so much that stuff. In the mean time… What did I get? That it’s important for each part of the Body, to find out what they’re called to do…and do it. That ‘community’ is what everyone is looking for and it takes time, commitment and being willing to be inconvienced, to get it. AND to keep asking God in each situation, what He wants me to do…even if it’s out of my comfort zone – be obedient! So…I figure if I got all that out the book – then it’s a good deal. I would definitely tell ‘performance orientated’ people ( or rescuers) tho, to pray before they read it, because it can trigger all sorts of feelings of guilt & inadequacy etc – and I don’t think that’s what it’s intended to do! Anyways..just my take on it.
actually Cool mama, I got the same sense just talking about it and haven’t read it yet. Although I know I could always be doing more I could see how you could be left feeling guilty and under condemnation over being obedient to what God has called you to do.