Let's be straight about this image: these people have spent way too much time grooming way too much hair with way too much hair spray. I mean the hard truth is that the hair style evident here is so 'jungle frew-frew' it is just begging to be hacked back. You'd need a weed whacker to take off enough to make a visible difference. I have no idea who decided that this style of hair was groovy, but we'd all agree that this way of setting hair is just embarrassing. But it is a hard truth -- albeit a funny hard truth -- to admit that many normal, hard-working middle-class folks in the 1970s actually thought this style rocked: anyone recall the Bay City Rollers? And do look more closely at the photo: doesn't that young family seem delighted with their 'jungle frew-frew' hairdos? You better believe it! "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night!" or "Let the good times roll...let them brush your rock 'n' roll hair, let them leave you up in the air..." Oh the frew-frew jungle blues!Some truths are hard to grasp while others are hard to take in because they demand of us a difficult course of action or choice. Most hard truths follow the latter description, involving so much more than dealing with evidence that clearly shows you had an extremely poor sense of aesthetic judgment. Indeed, the hardest truths I can think of are these:
1. there is no eternal security; we must trust only in Christ's mercy
2. the two ultimate choices: we saying "yes" to God's will or God saying "yes" to our will.
3. not everyone will find blessedness
4. heaven may involve even longer and more frequent liturgies :p
5. you must hold your hands out in love to those you dislike
What are the hardest truths for you?
6 comments:
That picture is just WRONG! Wow... I remember big-bang days and Aquanet but my excuse is that I was 11.
Hard Truths? "Not everyone will find blessedness"<--this includes me. I may not find blessedness.
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I can't do it alone.
lol...heaven will involve longer liturgies...thanks for that one!
the hair is wrong on every level...poor child...at least the parents chose to look like that, but they forced the look on their poor daughter!
hard truths?
-the need to let go of my desire for control and let God take care of it all.
-the knowledge that what i want might not be what God has planned for me
The real sad part of this whole thing is that the hair we see is more recent that the 70's that's a late 80's - "loverboy" mullet rather than a baycity mullet cut. You might want to check out the originall mullet site at: http://www.mulletsgalore.com/ It will open your world up to a whole new...um...world.
Hard truth: you are replaceable. Former bible college students will have a hard time with that one.
hard truth: I will die someday.
The hardest truth is sometimes *thee* truth.
where did you dig up my grade 10 picture, thomas?
no joke she and i could have been twins in 1989. except i think my earrings were almost as big as my face.
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