The Struggle With Colours

My tendency to bring bright colours into my wardrobe can actually be a real pain. I love being different, and portraying that difference through colours (it's not just about being different though. It's also about just having more colour!) But people are really judgy of that.

For example: hair colour. I was talking to my coworker about how unnatural hair colour is not professional. That got me thinking: why is it considered unprofessional? I guess that's because many people with colourful hair don't keep up their appearance with pressed jackets and tidy updo's. I understand that. If you're working, you ought to be efficient, professional, courteous, productive- but why can't I be all that and have purple hair tucked neatly into a topknot?

I don't normally shake my fists at discrimination in society, but this area bothers me a bit. Those people who give hair colour a bad name by being irresponsible, unproductive, and unprofessional sure make it difficult for those who could be both creatively expressive and a beneficial member of society. It's a crying shame.

Let's keep up this rant, shall we?

I don't want to walk outside with tattoos, gauges, and coloured hair afraid that I'll be made an object of lust. It's true: many, many people alter their bodies in such ways because they want to be sexy. To some, such an appearance communicates, "I'm adventurous. I live life dangerously. Come see how dangerous I can be." But what about those who just like the aesthetic??? It's also a product of victim's fault mentality.

I could be wrong, but I think it should be fine for me to have tattoos and coloured hair. As long as I dress in a manner respectful of myself and my brothers in Christ, and I conduct myself with honor, I see no reason why I should be deemed "easy."

What do ya'll think? 

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

~Neil Armstrong

Passion 2015 Thoughts

The Passion 2015 conference was being streamed online, so my family and I watched some of it this weekend. My brothers and sister have been to Passion, two of them several times. The teaching is amazing and the worship phenomenal. This year, it didn't seem as outstanding to me. I mean, just the fact that there are so many students interested in Jesus Christ is pretty amazing, but you know what I mean.

Well.

 This morning, I woke up in trepidation about a job training test-run I have today. For apparently no reason, my little mindey mind couldn't shake the idea that God wants to hurt me, that he enjoys inflicting pain on his people.

But I remembered what one of the speakers said, and it encouraged me:

God doesn't drive an ambulance, showing up to fix the damage. God wounds you like a surgeon: purposefully, intentionally, in order to bring you healing.

(paraphrase)