Finding Myself Again...Part 2 or A Lesson from the CHI

I started the series, "Finding Myself Again" yesterday. Just little blurbs to post whenever I discover something about myself that maybe I have forgotten over the years, or a new discovery. This morning, I made a new discovery, or maybe it is just a new perspective.

I am just like my hair.

Some of you may not be familiar with my hair and the trials and tribulations I have endured throughout my life with it. I have naturally curly hair...oh, but wait, all you stick straight haired people who just said "I would give anything for some natural curl!" ( I know you are out there - I heard you say it!!) I have naturally curly hair and naturally wavy hair and there is not an ounce of straightness on the top of my head. I have struggled to tame it and force it to curl or not to curl all my teenage and adult life.

This morning as I was straightening my hair with my beloved CHI straight iron (you don't have one....get one -- it will change your life!!) I was thinking about my hair and how straight it can look on the surface, but sometimes it takes me quite a bit longer to get the strands below to straighten themselves out with the iron. If I don't get them straightened properly...my whole hair day is ruined! Those pesky curls will inch there way up to the surface in no time and I am once again struggling to tame them back into submission. Then it hit me...I am just like my hair.

I can be presentable on the outside, but underneath I am full of gnarls and tangles and a mass of confusion and emotion and it takes God a really long time most mornings to "straighten" it all out and make it presentable for the world. And when I don't let Him get it all straightened out, when I am impatient and in a hurry and can't take the time for Him, I wrestle with all the underlying tangles of my life all day long!

Now, that was a lesson it only took me about 30 years to learn!! HA HA! Have a great morning.

Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev