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To be at peace with the LIFE I have at my home is where I want to live. Being honest here....there are times that I still get hung up about the details of running my home and the bills. I have to pray and remind myself that I am just passing through this world and all the heartache and headaches will pass. Still I am to be living a more excellent way and that means I am to honor my word and pay my bills.
LIFE is constantly changing and will not stay the same. Reminding myself. Counting my blessings and not forgetting God's benefits. Human as I am...I must recall God's best for me.
I had a waxing appointment yesterday with my beautician and she said when we get to heaven....I chimed in about we will have a glorified body!!! There won't be anymore waxing chin hair. Ha. I about came out of the chair yesterday with the discomforting pain of being waxed. Ripping off the face hair was intense. OUCH. IT HURT. HURT! I walked out of the salon looking like I was sun burned. I wasn't in pain, just looked like I spent too much time in the sun.
I did think of the Lord Jesus when the people ripped his face hair from his beard. The intense pain would have been excruciating. Makes me weak to think about.
After Jesus rose from the dead, Mary didn't recognize him. She thought he was the gardener. I think she partly didn't recognize him because he wouldn't have the beard that she knew him by. He would have been without a beard in his risen body. Maybe I am wrong. Still, his beard was ripped from his body before he was crucified.
Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
We know that Jesus fulfilled all of the prophecies from the Old Testament regarding the Messiah (1 Cor. 15.3-4), Isaiah specifically mentions that this would be one of the ways that Jesus would suffer. We also know that much mocking & torture had taken place that was not described in great detail by the gospel writers. In fact, Isaiah even tells us that they beat our Lord so badly that He was so bloodied & battered that He barely even looked human (Is. 52.14).
I'm no man, but think if men had their facial hair waxed they'd know it isn't a pleasant thing to have done. I have no desire to look like a man, talk like a man, walk like a man, dress like a man, act like a man. I have NO DESIRE to be a man. Praise GOD...I am a woman. I am thankful to be the gender that I am. Female. Female. Female. Now to work on being more submissive to my husband and respecting him.
I have to go back in a week to have more waxing done. Can I handle it? Yes. My aim is to only have this done every 6 weeks. At 60, my unwanted facial hair is more than a woman needs to have. It has gotten out of hand. I had my tubes tied when I was 24 years old. I know that this messed up my hormones. I have repented and asked God to forgive my liberated mind that I had in my youth. I was lost and didn't know it. I was a misguided woman that thought I needed to have no more babies and having a tubal ligation was the solution. I was mistaken and warn others to NOT get their tubes tied. It truly is unnatural and I believe it is not what God wants for His daughters.
At 24, the liberated thing in me was believing a lie. I believed so many lies. That having my tubes tied would allow me to be a spontaneous LOVER with my Husband. The truth was that my Husband and I did not get along all the time, and I thought if I got divorced that I didn't need anymore children. I might have gone the way of the world and had recreational sex because that is another worldly lie and I believe that I would have continued to not seek God's counsel. I believe that I would have thought I knew best about everything. There are consequences to our actions that come from a misguided thought life. If you separate yourself from God, you will have pain. Much pain. He knows what is best for us and if we ignore His wise counsel, we will hurt ourselves and others.
I never asked God's advice as to what to do about the number of children I should have. I didn't seek His counsel or advice. I regret this decision. I truly do.
I want God's help with making decisions and so I must seek Him out in this department called LIFE.
The warm wax is therapeutic. Like the calm before a storm. Exhale as the linen cloth rips out unwanted hair. Unwanted.
I've shaved, I've waxed, I've plucked, I've tried electrolysis and cremes. Haven't tried lazer. Concerned about scaring. I am sure that there are more ways to remove unwanted hair that I don't know about. For now, I will do my best to stick with the waxing process to see if the facial hair slows in growing and I will not have to suffer through this process so much of the time.
Depending on who you talk to will determine which technique they suggest. Including medical doctors. I've asked and asked and asked. One says to pluck, one says to shave, one says take hormones, one says use this creme, one says once the hair follicle is stimulated hair grows....my beautician said no more shaving. Her recommendation is waxing. Oh Lord....please let this work.
Every one of us goes through things. I am not alone when it comes to trials and tribulations. Not alone. My earthly body has a heavenly spirit. Hairy as I may be, God loves me. I've made some ridiculous mistakes in my life, still I believe that the Lord will help me get through when I repent and humbly ask for His HELP and guidance.
May I not forget, I am a child of the most high God because Jesus, the Son of God, is my personal Saviour.
Amen,
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MATTHEW 24:12
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
JAMES 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
