To pierce or not to pierce...
That is the question...
Last Christmas I pierced my nose, but it fell out in my sleep, and the hole healed up. I haven't got round to getting it re- done as I was to busy to decide whether I wanted it done or not.
At the time I enjoyed it as, believe it or not, unless I am talking to a big group of people, or leading something, or hanging out with close friends (when according to my precious arty farty buddies, Sarah and Lu, I am a raving chatterbox- even to the degree of competing with Drew!) I am painfully shy. The nose stud helped, as crazily enough I believed I could hide behind it, thus, feeling less exposed, I was more confident and carefree. However, looking at the pictures I look a bit like a pretentious hippy tree-hugger! I do love trees, and hippy are okay as long as they shower and don't say they are going to save the environment by sitting on their butts smoking pot in a drum circle.
I am so pooped after my (last!) exam, and getting my celebratory pineapple all over my key board, so I am leaving the decision up you dearest readers, or random cyber wanderers. (Laura your vote does not count, cause I already know what you are going to say!) Meanwhile I am going to refill my tea cup and have a quick nap before Drew and I go to the theatre. Hello summer!!!... I am emerging from my hermit/revision existence and the sun is shining for the first time in forever! Hurrah Henry!
posted by Bethybu @ 8:36 AM
8 Comments:
I think that it's lovely, and not a bit hippy-ish. I think it's more a global feel than a hippy feel. Hippies are all for Laura's "we all look exactly like we're supposed to" bit. Maybe if you never wore any makeup, wore only loose fitting natural fabrics, didn't wash or brush your hair... But even then the nose ring would stand out as flashy and pretty. I say, if you feel like it, do it. It'll grow over if you change your mind later, anyway...
DO IT, you have a good nose for it.
But Beth, who is Henry????
WoW!! So much food for thought that I don't need breakfast!
Luckily I don't need to make a decision about the seemingly contravsial issue! Drew's 'vote' gets top trumps, and even though he was the one to convinced me to get it done it the first place... he doesn't like the idea ant more. (Marriage thrives on demonstrating that the other's opinions matter)
As for any 'conviction'- I don't think the wee stud's presence carries enough negative connotations in the UK, and offending the people I share my life with is the only thing that would convict me, as such...
As for the confidence aspect... I was never designed to be mrs. perkiness, with jazz-hands and plastered smile etc... That is not me, and one should never become estranged from the way their 'being' is formed. However, my situationly based shyness is not what I see as constituting part of my 'fixed' personality- Instead it is something I see as standing in the way of expressions of authentic friendliness; I compensate for shyness by appearing aloof.
Surely His 'indwellingness' changes such things? smoothes out such hic-cups? Not the things that make Beth 'Beth' but the things (ie- lack of self confidence)that stifel fruitfulness?
It COMPLETELY baffels me how such essential questions that consider 'being' and 'selfhood' can be sparked bt a humble peice of metal, but there you go!
"Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine," declares the Lord God. "Then I bathed you with water, washed your blood from you and anointed you with oil. I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. I also PUT A RING IN YOUR NOSTRIL, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head."
Ezekiel 16:8-12
There you have it...God says you MUST pierce your nose. Otherwise you are unregenerate sinners, especially Laura.
Oh and as for ol' henry! A Hur-ah henry is an Etonite twit. The term is also interchangable with 'jolly hockey sticks' an expression of upper class glee. But do not worry Hannah, although I have many uber-posh classmate-friends, I was merely using the term tongue-in-cheek (you can take the Beth out of Lancashire, but never the lancashire out of the lass!)
I like what you said about "inhisdwellingness". I think that's very true. Wise words straight from John 15 (abide in Me)! What's us is to be stripped away, and instead, Christ is to be seen all the more plainly every day. (*hee*hee* that even rhymes)
Although I have no position in general on nose studs, I agree with Drew for not doing it.
Nose studs on girls are hot (most of the time). You've got my vote. Kudos to you for giving Drew veto power though. What an odd arrangement marriage can be sometimes. What other circumstance could incite someone to surrender their own free will to another over a simple matter like a piercing?? It's an impressive picture of our deference to our Lord Jesus. So yeah, kudos to you.
i once had a nose stud which i adored and had to remove for the purposes of that which facilitated our interesting connection as friends here on this blog (i believe we all met at the same place, although perhaps not for the first time?)
i have contradicting opinions on nose rings, none of them having to do with conviction (meaning, that is, that i am not convicted to not have a nose stud). my main issue with them is the fact that when i get a cold it lasts for at least weeks (that's with an "s"). you can all just imagine the problems arising out of a situation like that.
however, what i did want to comment on was to concur with your (beth) amazement over the simple turn of conversation leading from a piece of metal to the indwelling life of Christ in our day to day lives and circumstance. incredible. honest. encouraging and wonderful.
and that's that.
the day i get a new nose ring is the day i chop off (almost) all my hair and dye it electric blue with white tips.
i always wanted to do that, too.
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