I have long said that when God is speaking to me about something, His confirmations seem to be everywhere.
So, last week I mentioned my sheer joy (ahem) over football season that proves to be helpful for shapely eyebrows. My family watches. I entertain myself with plucking.
The problem is there are more games than eyebrow hairs that need to be plucked. So, I feared that might be facing some sort of eyebrow tragedy.
That is until I went to church this weekend. My pastor did some mighty fine preaching on how God uses ordinary people and how the original Greek word for ordinary is something like idiotay. That is not the correct word but that is how my southern ears heard it and translated it to my notes.
Anyhow.
In an effort prove how ordinary he is and how God still uses him to pastor our church, he told told us a personal story.
And I kid you not, it was about eyebrows.
Supposedly, he was about conduct a wedding a few years ago when he suddenly decided to trim his eyebrows before leaving for the church. Distracted by the many hair products he was using to fluff and spike his hair, he did a quick swipe on each of his eyebrows with his little trimmer thing.
Then as he was brushing his teeth, he saw a horrible sight. The guard for his trimmer thing was laying beside hair gel number 3.
Mercy.
Please have mercy.
Please have mercy on my eyebrows.
He prayed some very urgent prayers.
To no avail.
He had in fact completely shaved off both of his eyebrows. Completely.
Panicked, he called his wife and she instructed him to get an eye pencil from her makeup bag and draw them back on.
He did this very thing. And then went to conduct the wedding... under hot bright lights... that made him sweat... and made his eyebrows melt and droop and drip.
They flashed a picture of him up on the power point screens. I could hardly contain myself.
And I sure did make a vow to stop all my random plucking during said football games. I might have even toyed with the idea of becoming an all out fan. Or to at least turn my attention to my overgrown cuticles.
So, just out of curiosity, who out there does some sort of eyebrow grooming and who could care less?
So, last week I mentioned my sheer joy (ahem) over football season that proves to be helpful for shapely eyebrows. My family watches. I entertain myself with plucking.
The problem is there are more games than eyebrow hairs that need to be plucked. So, I feared that might be facing some sort of eyebrow tragedy.
That is until I went to church this weekend. My pastor did some mighty fine preaching on how God uses ordinary people and how the original Greek word for ordinary is something like idiotay. That is not the correct word but that is how my southern ears heard it and translated it to my notes.
Anyhow.
In an effort prove how ordinary he is and how God still uses him to pastor our church, he told told us a personal story.
And I kid you not, it was about eyebrows.
Supposedly, he was about conduct a wedding a few years ago when he suddenly decided to trim his eyebrows before leaving for the church. Distracted by the many hair products he was using to fluff and spike his hair, he did a quick swipe on each of his eyebrows with his little trimmer thing.
Then as he was brushing his teeth, he saw a horrible sight. The guard for his trimmer thing was laying beside hair gel number 3.
Mercy.
Please have mercy.
Please have mercy on my eyebrows.
He prayed some very urgent prayers.
To no avail.
He had in fact completely shaved off both of his eyebrows. Completely.
Panicked, he called his wife and she instructed him to get an eye pencil from her makeup bag and draw them back on.
He did this very thing. And then went to conduct the wedding... under hot bright lights... that made him sweat... and made his eyebrows melt and droop and drip.
They flashed a picture of him up on the power point screens. I could hardly contain myself.
And I sure did make a vow to stop all my random plucking during said football games. I might have even toyed with the idea of becoming an all out fan. Or to at least turn my attention to my overgrown cuticles.
So, just out of curiosity, who out there does some sort of eyebrow grooming and who could care less?
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