(notice how our wind-breaker colors are now great wedding flower themes?!)
stacy always wanted to cut her hair short... like a pixie cut. i always thought it would be cute, but you know how girls are. hair is kind of... important to us. and it can be scary to just cut off a security blanket like that. one that takes months-to-years to regrow. well, stacy went off to college and still couldn't chop her hair completely off, but decided to go blonde. and it was really cute. her roomie did it for her, actually. well, a few months? into the bleaching process, the bleach was left on too long by said roommate. Aaaaaaaannnnd stacy's hair may or may not have started breaking off. i believe she described them to me as "inch-long spikey things on the back of her head." and this whole situation was very tragic and made even more tragic when she went to get it cut into a haircut and the hairdresser sliced her ear with the scissors.
but seriously! look how cute it is!!now. you may or may not be wondering what the lesson is. but hang with me... i have a point beyond how cute she is.
i could obviously never be sure of this, but i wonder if stacy ever would have cut her hair if she hadn't been presented with these circumstances..? i wonder if she ever would have known how great short hair looks on her..?
the same with me. i believe that God uses hard things in our lives in the same way: He takes our hair falling out and turns it into a cute haircut! he takes jobs we hate and turns them into defining experiences. he takes things we never would have chosen for ourselves, and transforms them into what we actually wanted all along. what a God of love we serve.
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