All caps… must mean this is important. Honestly, it is. I really hate shaving. I hate getting up in the morning and having to put that stupid shaving cream in my hand. I hate having to take that stupid overly priced mach 45 razor and putting it to my face. I hate having to spend my hard earned money to buy more overly priced stupid mach 45 razor blades to do the very thing that i hate… and that is… say it with me… “SHAVING!”

My dislike for shaving… no my HATE for shaving made me think about the “grooming” process as a whole. I think i hate that too. Why do i have to get up and go make myself pretty? Now please understand, i love brushing my teeth… i’m not saying don’t brush your teeth… but the whole gel the hair, trim the fu man chu (trans - “gotee”), make sure there ain’t no eye buggers in my eyes… you get the point… and for girls… HOLY COW! You ladies have it so much worse than i do. The work that society tells you that you have to put in to “be attractive” is enough to drive someone insane. I heard a student say he asked a girl what she looked like under all her make-up and she responded to him, “You do not want to know.”

Why don’t i want to know? Why is it that we hate the idea of people seeing us when we just wake up or without all our “get up” on? Why is it that we have to put our “faces” on to go out into public? Why do i have to go get my “hair did” to go somewhere?

A few years ago, Canon cameras came out with a saying… “Image is everything.” We fell for that. Then a few years later Sprite came out with a saying… “Image is nothing.” Not to sure we grabbed that one… but honestly, Sprite has no idea how close to the truth they are.

“Looks aren’t everything. Don’t be impressed with his looks and stature… God judges persons differently than humans do. Men and women look at the face; God looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel16:7

I’m not calling for a rejection of bathing. I’m not wanting to give up showering to prove all i care about is my heart, but i am pondering this…

1. How have we become so consumed with our outside “stuff”?

and 2. If my heart is really what God is looking at, should that be what i aim to look at in others?

To think, all this stemming from an extreme hate for shaving.