Two-faced
Tonight (August 11) during my #TashyraTalksTuesdays segment on ReachGospelRadio.com and the RGR App I talk about the inevitable debates that derives from conflicting opinions of “others”. Others. Those that cannnot and will not ever be completely satisfied. There is always an ‘other’...another other opinion, other perspective, other option, and other alternative. Ultimately, its your responsibility not to self-impose the expectations of ‘others’ and take them on as your responsibility.
This photo is metaphorically profound in that it could simply tell the difference in the woman’s mood from one day to the next - not wanting to wear make-up on a Monday, but wanting to on a Tuesday. However, the commentary that accompanies that photo speaks to a greater debate that can transform into an internal debacle if we allow people’s opinions to infiltrate our souls and decisions.
If you decide to flaunt your natural beauty, a clean face with your ‘I woke up like this attitude’, or if you decide to chuzz it up a bit, accent those eyes and lips cause you feeling yourself - its going to hit different people differently no matter which side of the face you decide to stand. So, here’s the deal...
No matter the responses, or the lack thereof, your decision to be still while in the valley of decision may seem like you’re not putting in any effort, and your moments of movement may seem like you’re ‘doing the most’. At the end of the day, it is crucial to know the moments and seasons of your life. To be still takes as much focus, energy and intent as it does to move in motion. Both are necessary, just as both of these faces are beautifully necessary for growth.
Let this photo represent time in time in that there is a time to move and a time to be still. There is a time to give, and a time to receive. There is a time to sow and a time to reap. There is a time to weep and a time to rejoice. In EVERY TIME or SEASON you find yourself, rejoice. Your beauty is a marvel to behold. Your BARE face and BEAT face are both wonders. Your stillness and your motion are both necessary. There is no either or, there is only both.
Ecclesiates 3
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.