Godly Extreme Makeovers
August 24th, 2007 at 8:08 am by Dee O'Neil Andrews
Robert Browning
Some people are caught up in the "extreme makeover" idea and mindset where they want to totally re-do many body parts and change them all up to make their physical bodies something totally different in the end.
I don't know if I would ever even consider doing that or to what extent. I always thought I'd pass on the boob jobs and such thinking that I'd done pretty well as a woman just like I was by using my bubbly and vibrant personality and ignoring some of the flatter aspects of my chest. ha! I mean, it never was bad enough that anyone mistook me for a boy or anything, you understand.
In the even of really debilitating and devastating disabilities I don't know how far I would go in trying to re-make myself. I suppose it would depend on the amount of self esteem I had and the circumstances surrounding the surgeries. I don't believe in taking drastic action unnecessarily or if it could be dangerous.
I'm chicken!
So, what does it mean to undergo a Godly extreme makeover do you think? Is this something we should look upon with as much trepidation? Or should we be ever open and willing to the possibilities.
Do we worry about the outcome and whether we'll "fit in" better with our peers as a result or be more radical? After all, the purpose of physical extreme makeovers is to make our appearances and countenances more pleasing to the world. What about our spiritual extreme makeovers? What would those do for us do you think and how would we be different?
I don't know that I have any answers to these questions this morning. I'm just throwing them out as something to think about, so let's hear your thoughts on this subject today, okay?!
Then drag your cameras out or do some internet browsing looking for more photos to send in to the current Finding Direction Summer Desktop Photo Contest. You have this weekend, next week and next weekend to get your pictures gathered together and emailed to me here at "dee_andrews@bellsouth.net."
We need some more good photos coming in, so y'all get busy!
Meanwhile, cheers & blessings to you all today! Dee
Good question, once you got past the really personal stuff! The great thing about a spiritual makeover is that we don’t have to “do” it or somehow make it happen. Christ will do it in and through us if we will only submit to the “surgery.”
In many ways I think our failed merger with the local Christian Church, the fallout from “the Club” who have branded us heretics and gotten us kicked out of Bible Camp, the turning of loss to gain by finding a new Camp and having Pat Pugh come down to transform our kids into the image of Christ has been a spiritual extreme makeover for me and our church.