A group of people were recently asked to think of the most beautiful woman they knew. Without consulting each other, they didn’t pick a glamorous celebrity. All of them picked women they knew who were much older and very wise. All the women chosen had gray hair! These people laughed to think that they associated beauty with gray hair, because aging and gray hair are so unpleasant to our culture but so honored in God’s view (see Proverbs 16:31; 20:29).
TODAY’S EXPERIMENT - Choose one of these three topics to journal about or at least ponder while you’re driving: Consider how much time you spend on sprucing up your body—haircuts, grooming, buying body care products, shopping for clothes. What effect does spending this much time have on you? What messages are you sending to yourself (and your children)?
How would you finish these sentences? I must look____________. I must dress____________.
--If you had just one change of clothes (which is what more than half of the people in the world have), how hard would that be for you?
--Think about how you look in the morning before you’ve arranged your hair. How hard would it be for you to live without a comb or other hair accessory?
--Consider why aging seems so negative in our culture and the supreme compliment it is to be told you look ten or twenty years younger than you are. Talk to God about how important (or unimportant) outward looks are to you.
--Ask God to show you how important it is to you that wisdom (sometimes) comes with age.
--What disciplines of simplicity or frugality in dress and appearance might be helpful to you?
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