Have you ever thought you looked one way only to find out you actually looked another? Have you ever been chatting it up only to realize your teeth are filled with pieces of salad. Have you ever gotten a facial and decided to feel your face and feel you’re fresh as a baby’s bottom only to realize you actually look like you went through a meat grinder?
Well, definitely that last “have you ever”… I can say—I have 🤪
So, when we were young and married we were also broke all the time. We were living off $9/hour and some part time work to supplement. We never treated ourselves to meals out or special events or things of extravagance. We just couldn’t. But as time went on, one of the jobs Sean had extended some perks and gave us an opportunity for me to get a free facial! I couldn’t believe my blessing. I’d never even had a facial before in my life. I was about 22 or so and boy was I excited!
I went and enjoyed my time thoroughly! Although I will say I had some parts of the facial that were not quite so pleasant. One being the part where she told me the cream may burn a little, but to let her know! Well, not only was it burning—but it was ON FIRE and a bit scary! But she assured me, if it burns she can take care of it right away and so I told her it was burning and she began pulling out another cream to take care of the burning sensation and soon she was asking me how it was feeling now and assuring me it should feel great now. THAT was when full panic mode set in and I told her my face was still burning VERY BADLY… and that was when SHE began showing some panic in her voice as well. I could tell she was trying to remain calm and hopeful as she assured me… “Okay, I have another option yet, let me try this one!” And she lathered another cream on me and finally I began feeling some relief from the sheer fire terror on my face!
There was also a good bit of pain involved in all of the extractions she was doing, but I tried to be brave and just accept that this MUST be the experience of a facial— and boy was I ever blessed to finally experience one!!
I felt my face and I couldn’t stop touching! LOL—smoother than a baby’s bottom! I mean quite literally I hadn’t felt my face so smooth like—EVER!! And I was BEYOND excited to get home and show Sean how clear and fresh my face was and how good I looked!
I got home.
I walked into our tiny 1 bedroom home in Rohererstown and I proudly and loudly said, “WELL, what do you think?” Meanwhile doing the face frame hand motion and anxiously awaiting what in my head was definitely going to be a, “Wow babe, you look INCREDIBLE!” Only to have some mild giggles instead and a, “Well… You look like you’ve been through a meat grinder.”
And I learned yet another thing about Sean that night. He is awfully honest. And I mean awfully 😳😩😜🤪
I promptly ran to our closest mirror and was quite horrified myself and at my own reflection! I couldn’t believe it! BUT I FELT SO SMOOTH and good! But I looked SO AWFUL AND BLOTCHY and irritated!
I can’t feel my face… apparently!
I did feel my face
But I clearly could not truly feel my face and know what it actually looked like!
Reminds me of the scripture
“For if anyone only listens to the word without obeying it, he is like a man who looks very carefully at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he immediately forgets what he looked like. But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience]. If anyone thinks himself to be religious [scrupulously observant of the rituals of his faith], and does not control his tongue but deludes his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless (futile, barren). Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.”
James 1:23-27 AMP
Thank God for marriage and honesty! I love just being able to keep it real and having someone to walk alongside of me who will also do the same!
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