What’s so terrible about a woman getting a run in her nylons? Diane discovered one last Sunday and…horror! Picture a puppy turning his head to understand. That’s me trying to figure this out. So what if I have a hole in my socks? This is why Henry Higgins sang, “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”
Could it be that this nylon nightmare expresses something very deep in a woman’s soul? “Cosmetic” comes from the Greek word “cosmos,” meaning an order in all things, even in the vastness of the universe. This puppy wonders: Is a woman’s dress a statement of how she views her place in the order of things?
Style for some is a show of come hither sexuality and materialism, but for a Christian woman style grows out of an ordered reverence for God. “Let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious” (1 Peter 3:4).
If you see yourself that way, a run in your nylon signals an unwelcome disorder in your life, your life that you want properly ordered as a beloved child of God in family and community.
Could that be it? We men are forever trying to figure it out.
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