I am always searching for a good story to share on here and i spend a great deal of time reading story after story until i find just the right one. Well today i did not even have to go looking for a story to share as i had my own kind of epiphany before i ever left the house.
Today began like most days, I did not want to get out of bed. It has been even more of a struggle lately as the unseasonably cold weather has made it really hard to get motivated.
I drug myself out of bed and started my normal routine. I showered and applied my war paint and then started what has became the huge task of blow drying and straightening my hair. I know this does not sound like any big deal, but to me it had become a dreaded part of my routine. What usually took me10 minutes suddenly became 30 minutes and had me flustered to the point I was just going to cut my hair and call it good.
In fact I had a hair appointment last week and seriously thought about going ahead with my plan to cut my hair. I know the obvious answer to this problem without having to part with my hair would have been to get up a little earlier, but honestly.... that just isn't going to happen!
I got to the beauty shop where i knew i was in capable hands of someone who could help me out of the problems, but i just could not follow through with my plan. I had worked hard to grow my hair out and it has become a part of me that i actually like. I also like the idea that my hair is the one part of me that the fuller it is the better it looks. After all i am a product of the 80's! So, i just had her trim my hair to maintain my style and went on my way.
I have spent every morning this past week doing my same old routine and have either spent the 30 minutes blow drying my hair to make it look its best or just letting my hair do the curly thing as this was truly the easiest way and was alot less stress for me! That was until my epiphany this morning.
I had entered the bathroom and reluctantly took my blow dryer out of the cabinet and plugged it in and decided i better glance at the clock to see what kind of job i was going to do on my hair. Curly or Straight? That was the question. I decided that i was fixing to be late for work if i did the complete job on my hair so i decided to do a partial job and dry the front and let the rest go. It would work if i just didn't let anyone see me from behind! LOL! That is when it happened. I dropped the blow dryer breaking off a fragment of the pretty burgundy plastic and knocked the lent out of the filter causing me to have to clean up a mess. I muttered a few things under my breath as i was already running behind and this was just another road block that was putting me further behind.
I got it all picked up and continued with my hair only to discover that it took 10 minutes to dry my hair. Now go figure. The same hair and the same blow dryer that i have been using forever. I was baffled until i realized that the slight bump that chipped the structure of my blow dryer and caused the lent to come loss had actually opened up the flow of air and had actually made a huge difference in what had become such a dreaded chore in my life.
I realized right then and there that our lives are much like this. We get into a set routine and do the same things over and over and over not realizing that over time we are "collecting lent". Sometimes it just takes a slight bump to remind us that we have some "build up" in our "filter" that needs to be released so that we can function at a higher level.
I am thankful for the maintenance man upstairs that is so willing to rid me of my "lent"!
By: Tracy Wilson
In you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse. Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. ~ Psalm 25:2-3-6
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