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02/26/15
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I Hate My Hair

At 10:00 pm, as I was getting ready for bed, I walked past the bathroom mirror and thought, “I hate my hair.” I didn’t think this one random thought really mattered to my next 5 minutes or 5 days. It was just another thought that I didn’t think about having. I wanted to feel better, so I picked up my scissors and began to snip at my hair. “Just enough to make a few changes to my bangs.” Snip, snip, snip – “that will make me feel better about myself.” Snip, snip, snip – “now I will like myself better.”

What started out as a few snips, ended with a very short, uneven haircut. I stood looking in the mirror thinking, “What in the world did I just do?” Unfortunately, I could not go back in time. The damage was done….and there was damage!

This moment, as simple as it was, taught me some very valuable lessons.

First, my thoughts are very powerful. My thoughts have power to affect my next 5 minutes, 5 days, 5 months, or 5 years. Second Corinthians 10:5 tells us to take every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ. If I would have taken the time to think about what I was thinking and then focus on Christ, I wouldn’t have felt so negative about myself in a fleeting moment. I would have been able to see beyond one moment to something more positive.

Next, it is important to take care of myself, but I must be balanced in this. God cares far more about my heart than He does about my hair. According to Colossians 3:12, God wants me to clothe myself with mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. In one brief moment, I blew off about three of those things. I would have saved myself some embarrassment if I would have walked away from the mirror and picked up my bible rather than my scissors. Making a few “snips” to my heart would have had a more positive impact on my life.

Last, when I looked in the mirror, instead of seeing with my eyes all that I hate, why couldn’t I see what God sees? One, simple word - pride. Normally, when we think of pride we think of being arrogant. However, pride is defined as having a high opinion of one’s own importance. If I could have stopped looking in the mirror at my appearance and thinking so much about what I hate about myself and what others might be thinking of me, just maybe I could have remembered what God has to say about me. For one brief moment, I placed a very high opinion on my appearance, and the result was humiliating, a bit funny as I think back, but mostly humiliating!

I would like to say that I never think negatively about myself anymore, but the truth is, this is a battle for me. Every day I have to choose to seek God and allow Him to keep me from being full of pride in my thoughts and my actions.

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