“If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.”
- George Bernard Shaw
Claire took the shoes off, Sarah didn’t even bother with the hat, and me? I took pictures in my bare feet and still stuck to the rules of our new Three prompt.
I’m really bad at breaking rules. I have to force myself not to keep them sometimes, because I am by nature a “good girl.” Generally, it is easy for me to adapt to situations and culture by observing others and doing what they do. I am an oldest child, and this is how I learned about life.
But I have this IFSP artist streak in me that keeps requiring me to think outside the box. And I have a God who really doesn’t fit in any box at all, who breaks all of the rules in every culture and tells me not to worry about what to eat, drink or wear. He tells me to love as He loves, lay down my life for Him, come to Him for rest and take up His easy yoke.
He likes paradoxes. Things that make no sense to the rule-keepers.
He says “Go, be who I made you for Me,” and “wear the hat for fun even if you feel silly” and “be kind even if someone is not being kind to you.”
Sometimes, it is easier for me to break a rule if someone insists that I keep it. “Why?” is the question I ask – and this is how I’m learning to live now. There is a good sort of rebellion, one that leads one deeper into God and away from thinking like I don’t know Him at all.
I think I’m rebelling in 2012, against rules that shouldn’t be there and into the God who fills me up. I want to stop with the caveats already and just live free, bare-footed and in my hat. Assuming I want to wear a hat. I love that He’s letting me discover how much room there is in Him to live without fear.
Our prompt at Three this round is based on the Shaw quote I’ve shared above. Do you have a photo or a story to share about that? Join the fun with Claire and Sarah and me, won’t you? We’d love to have you!
