Water Your Worth

“Well, we just cut about a year off now but here would be about two years… and after hearing a little bit… I kind of think we should go ahead and take the rest off.”, Jess the hairstylist says to me as I sit in her chair. “My hair is in your hands, I just want to look and be better. I’m ready.” “Alright we are doing it.” My hair went from being down to my lower back to a little below my shoulders – a good two foot difference…

Have you realized how most service people tend to be therapist as well? I remember as a massage therapist how important it was that my space was safe for my clients and that I was ready and able to hold whatever they needed to let go of during their session to allow for healing and progress in the body annnd their life. It makes sense though, when you really think about it. Our hair, nails, muscles and body alignments go through everything with us and experience maybe more than we openly face for ourselves. A lot of times we can continue a survival mode for longer than others would realize and we can cover things up with our smile and appearance but the body doesn’t lie. Every growth of hair shows our nutrient intake and how we have lived and been cared for. Every way our body moves exemplifies how it has stored something or got stuck in the process of some regular occurrence. Our nails, skin and teeth are no different, everything is part of everything.

So, as I asked for help with my hair and to be cared for there was also a cliff note version shared of what has been going on in my life for the past three years since my last hair care. I did not know if I wanted to go through a trim or change because I was attached to the hair in some ways, I liked the length but yet I found myself getting more irritated with it and I just didn’t like how I looked anymore so it was time and I wanted that extra care from someone outside of me. I had a feeling this would happen but then it seemed to pass until she finished and tears started to roll down as I covered my face saying, “It feels so good.” It was time to let go of all the extra weight and to step into the next version, a better version, a look that matched who I have become. A cut above the rest – better in quality.

I am so thankful for the refining and new defining. I am so grateful for who I was and who I am now and who is still to come. I am worthy.

Isn’t it amazing how God has put all things into consideration and how perfectly, wonderfully and fearfully we were made in His image and for His glory? Hallelujah

Are you in a process of transformation? What has been nagging at you a little saying that you have something to let go of in order to step further forward? You are worthy of that growth, acknowledgement and care.