It's all about the hair

When I was brushing my hair this morning before work I was looking at my hair.  I've always had baby fine hair.  In my younger years hairdressers would tell me how fine it was but that I had lots of it.  Of course now they are kind enough not to mention the thinning of that same fine hair.  At some point, I honestly cannot say when I resigned myself to the fact that I would never have pretty hair like so many of my friends did.  There hair would grow long and luscious and if I tried to get mine past my shoulders is was stringy and ugly and looked even finer than before.

When my precious daughter came along the first couple years of her life she was pretty much bald.  Around two though her hair started coming in fast and furious and was thick and red and so very beautiful.  I thanked God every day for giving my daughter the hair I never had and felt that it was fine that He saved it for her.  I would much rather live with something I was used to and let her enjoy the glory of beautiful hair. 

By the time that she was 10 her hair was so thick that the stylists would have to thin it because rubber bands wouldn't pull it all back for her and she'd get so irritated at having so much hair that she couldn't do many styles as they would make it puff out (as she put it). I started noticing most the women around me had some complaint about their hair.  Very few said I like my hair just fine the way it is.  How sad that so many beautiful women were so unhappy with such a prominent part of themselves.

Today when you are checking out at the store or stopping at the bank or even running in for a cup of coffee at your favorite spot take time to let the person behind the counter no something nice about their hair.  If their hair really is the worst and you can't find something, then give them a compliment on their eyes or cheekbones or really anything that will lift them up.  Remember that woman (or even man) serving you probably hasn't heard one good thing about themselves today.  The average human here's only 1 positive for every 10 negatives and with that there is no wonder some of them are cranky.  I've notice that the crankiest ones of all when given a compliment end up being quite nice most the time and they remember you when you go back.

Leave something nice behind you and remember you have the exact hair God planned for you and you alone.

Luke 12:7     

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.