Pink Goes With Everything... I have a little girl and she is all girl. She gets excited about purses (she has about 15 of them), she loves clothes and shoes, wears princess dresses and matching crowns, loves to have her hair done (by mommy) and sometimes falls asleep wearing her Hello Kitty sunglasses…and she’s only four! She loves to get dressed in the morning and most of the time she does it on her own. She will disappear for 30 minutes and it will be totally quiet and that’s when the fear starts. Mackenzie and I know that eventually, Avery will walk downstairs with her outfit on and most days, our response is, “Wow Ave! That is one heck of an outfit.” She will have a neon pink skirt on with pastel pink tights underneath and a lime green shirt with different colored flowers on the front. On her feet will be her Minnie Mouse socks (a different shade of pink) and her rainbow shoes. Like I said, “Wow!” When I tell her, “Ave, I don’t think that matches.” She responds with, “Daddy, it all has pink. It matches.” To my untrained eye, this ensemble of mismatched clothes just doesn’t make sense. What I’m starting to realize is that every outfit was scrupulously picked out with care by my daughter because pink always matches and pink goes with everything. Today, I helped my daughter get dressed and put her in a beautiful dark blue Hawaiian dress with white flowers all over it along with blue tights to go underneath. Right before I left, she was walking downstairs with pink and white socks on. I didn’t say a thing. I know what my daughter was thinking, “The dress has white, my socks have white and I need some pink to wear.” Here’s the point; I’m getting to the point where, when my daughter comes downstairs that it doesn’t even phase me because it’s who she is. In fact, now, if she came down actually matching, that would throw me off more. How many of us are that way with Jesus in our lives. Are we so concerned when the world looks at us and says, “You can’t do that.” That we just turn right back around and find something else, some other lifestyle that will help us fit in better. Most people who really stand out in their faith are that way because that’s just who they are. At first when people commented, they probably were a little fearful but something inside them kept them from yielding to what the world thought was right. Now, they might get a few weird looks but for most people, who have taken the time to get to know them, it makes them smile and, like Avery, if they were to be any other way, it wouldn’t be right; it wouldn’t be them; it wouldn’t bring us joy. I want to be like that. I’m not called to “match” in the way the world wants me to “match”. I want to stand out for a Savior who was willing to stand out for me; who gave me the ultimate example and called, no, commanded me to follow. I’m proud of my little girl. I hope my faith, and her faith, gets to the point where we can look people straight in the eyes and say, “It’s ok. Pink goes with everything” Live boldly for Jesus!
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 20:00:36 +0000
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