YOUR HAIR

 Hey there!

How are you doing this fine August day? Happy New Month!

Welcome to today’s gist.

Long time, no Brooke St James inspired gist. I’ve spoken about how Brooke St James is probably one of my best authors (maybe not in these exact words but you get the idea); whenever I need to do ‘relax reading’, she’s my go-to. I say all of that to say that I was recently reading ‘Suddenly Starstruck’ and something in the book caught me attention again so I thought to share.

I feel the part of the body most unaccounted for is the hair; it is so unaccounted for that unless your hair starts falling off in large chunks from your head, or you start noticing large patches on your head, it is easy to ignore the fact that you lose hair almost on a daily basis; and if you’re like me that can cut your hair at the drop of the hat, the level of unaccountability for the hair is even more. 

But here’s something the Bible says in Matthew 10:30 that was referenced in the book: GOD KNOWS THE NUMBER OF MY HAIRS! He knows the exact number of the strands of hair I have on my body and not one of them falls off without His knowledge. God is so intentional about me, and you of course, that He cares even to the extent of knowing something as seemingly insignificant as the number of hairs I have and paying attention to what happens to them.

And as I read that, I thought to myself that if something like that can have God’s attention, how much more the ‘more significant and important’ parts of my life? God is so interested in me that nothing about me could ever escape His notice.

This is particularly helpful for me because sometimes I struggle with understanding and believing that God indeed is concerned about me; there are times when it seems like the things happening to me couldn’t possibly have been happening with God’s notice but this here is a reminder that nothing that happens to me can escape God’s notice and if He allows it to happen, it is because He knows that there is something beneficial for me from the experience. So it may not look like it, but God is definitely aware of all that I go through and He definitely is available for me in those moments.

Another way this knowledge that God is interested in the seemingly insignificant things has helped me is that it is a necessary reminder that God is in control of my life. In the 1 month and 11 days since I’ve been a graduate, there have been moments when anxiety seems to be creeping into my heart -the question of what is next for me is one that bears heavily on my heart especially because none of my plans seem to be coming to fruition; there is a decent amount of pressure, both self-inflicted and from external sources, that makes it seem like I’ll be wasting time and my life if I am not doing certain things a certain type of way and that has a tendency to dampen my heart. But once again, God reminded me through this book that if He can care for me enough to know my hairs, He is certainly interested in my future and He has plans for it, plans which He has said are of good and not of evil, to give me a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11). So, while my own plans may not be panning out, His plans still remain unaffected and He’s working in and through me to bring me to the actualization of these plans. This is not to say that I will sit down and wait for God to do all the work, it is an encouragement to me as I work that God cares for me and He already has all my questions answered, so if I would only lean on Him more, I too will be able to have the answers to my questions and I can remain confident in the fact that if I follow Him, I will be alright in the end because HE KNOWS MY HAIRS!

I hope this encourages you as it has encouraged me and that we learn to rest in the knowledge that God sees and cares for us as individuals. I pray this month is blessed and fruitful for us all.

See you next week.

Love, 

Achenyo.

PS. I just realized that this entire gist is in English with no pidgin! I’m amazed at myself too!