Just you wait henry higgins( or Mr. Neighbor man)

I will be honest....... " I don't want to love him." 

Him= My angry neighbor who during the last week has yelled at me, pounded on my door, parked passive aggressively  which made it almost impossible for my roommate and I to back out of our parking spot and is someone who glares at me from his apartment as I enter my humble abode. 

 Conversation between me and God this morning 

Seriously God he is not lovable ! 

I am sure you see that He is more throw eggs at his truckable... is that what you mean by love? ? 

Does being lovely include loving him or can we pass on loving just this one person? Pretty Please.

 What I am thow eggs at my truckable ?

 I don't have a truck God, but yes I have been passive aggressive before, but you don't understand I had to be that one or two thousand tims, well that situation was...... ok yah I see your point. 

Fine I will love him! Are you happy now?!? 

What does is mean to love someone that is hard to love? How do I love my neighbor in practice? As much as I would like the practice of love to be easy and involve singing, and broadway quality dance numbers( humm..... that is an idea.... I could ....oh wait back to my point) the practice of love is intricate and ,my friends, our humanness often gets in the way. 

When I moved to this neighborhood I firmly believed that God had placed me here for a greater purpose and I said I was ready to be molded to his purposes. Ok Mr. Neighbor man get ready for some love because I have a feeling that God has revealed purpose number one.... Love Him. 

 

Wouldn't it be loverly?

Lately I have thinking a lot about what it means to be lovely. In our culture(especially living in Hollywood)  loveliness as a quality of character which appears to have been forgotten. We easily have become focused on looking looking looking and doing doing doing. As a woman I feel my culture tells me that my strength and value is/should NOT be that "a gentle and quiet spirit(  I Peter 3: 4) " but instead   seductive, loud, confrontational and like men(which as a woman I take offense to... am I the only one?).

At church we have been studying 1 Peter and the overriding message I have taken from this study ,thus far, is that our differences( gender, role in life, ect) can be beautiful instruments to bringing glory to God. If we allow them to be used.

So how does my femininity bring glory to God?

How does our Femininity and Masculinity as a quality of our created design reflect our designer?

How can we as individuals and a body  affirm the differences in gender within our community and encourage our sisters to be lovely"delightful for beauty, harmonious and full of grace" and our brothers to be "Men" which is a definition which we appear to have lost the definition to?

I don't have the answers , but am on a journey. A journey to discover how my life and my created design   can reflect God's glory. I am excited to discuss and share with you this Journey to live as lovely in Hollywood.