Really?!?

I have been reading several books lately but the one that has really grabbed me is called When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd- It has really made me slow down and examine the idea of waiting .  She is a writer who has an obvious love for nature and God's creation.  Gardening and spending time outside are two of my favorite things to do.  In fact today the two littlest Baumbachs and I were able to capture what we have named the "WORLD'S BIGGEST SPIDER" - a huge writing spider- who is currently living in some tupperware on our back patio, feasting on a cricket.  She is awaiting her post-suppertime release into the park behind our house (I have to keep her until my husband comes home just to prove I was soooo brave, I grew up terrified of even plastic spiders) but I digress...

So today I went to get a haircut... (long overdue, I always wait too long between appointments, I can't decide if I am cheap, or lazy, probably the former)  The stylist said to me "I always send you out of here looking so good, and you come back to me looking so shaggy". Ouch, Really?

I've been rolling that around in my head the rest of the afternoon. Is that what God might say about me? I guess that is the beauty of His Grace- He can always do a little more trimming and refining, and then we grow- and he trims and refines us.  It reminds me of something from that book-Sue Monk Kidd wrote- "The sacred intent of life, of God [is] to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul"  And I thought I was just going to get a haircut...