Pink is the New Black
Pink is the new black according to 2019 color tends from ElleDécor. If you’re into a fresh new interior, coral pink colors areslated to be hot for 2019. I love the idea, but in a dominantly male household, they may revolt if I painted thefamily room pink. Pink, however, has found its way into the male wardrobe overthe years. Businessmen sport pink button-downshirts and pink ties. Basketball players wear hot pink athletic shoes on thecourt. Some don it in support of women’s causes, others to get attention, or tokeep up with a fad. But generally speaking, pink has been a girl’s color.
Or has it?
In the 1800s and early1900s in England, boys wore pink insteadof blue. A 1918 article from Earnshaw’s Infant Departmentclaimed pink was a strong masculine color more so than the dainty, delicatecolor blue. Strange? To us maybe. But when you consider the Red Coats theBritish army wore during that time, itmakes sense. Boys were considered small men and pink is a lighter version ofred. The trend became for boys to wear pink. This all changed with DwightEisenhower’s wife, Mamie,wore pink to his U.S. presidential inauguration. Suddenly, pink became afeminine color.
Over time trends come and go. Everything used to be fat-free.Now Keto diets are trending. Carbs are shunned,and fats are okay. Depending on the dayor article you read, eggs, dairy, and salt can be healthy or killing you.Politicians flip flop on issues. Republicans and Democrats get elected and unelected. Celebrities and athletes riseand fall from fame. Fidget spinners and bottle flipping are a thing of thepast. Dabbing was replaced by Fortnight dances.
It’s exhausting, if not down-right impossible, to keep up.
Change can be exciting, butit can also be nerve-racking. We can feellike Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit hole where up is down, small is big,and vice versa. Like Alice, we follow the instructions “drink me” and “eat me” to catch up with everyone else but end upovercompensating and becoming too big or too small, never just right.
Thankfully, amidst all this change, one thing is consistent—one thing is constant.
God remains the same.
Hebrews13:8 says, “JesusChrist is the same yesterday and today and forever.” It almost seems surrealfor something to stay the same, but Goddoes. We can rely on his word. We can count on his promises. We can put ourtrust in Him for His word is truth. Numbers23:19 says, “God is not human, that he should lie, not a humanbeing, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then notact? Does he promise and not fulfill?” He is the alpha and the omega,the beginning and the end. What he promised long ago still holds true today. It doesn’t fade or grow dim. It’snot swayed, persuaded, or altered. It is the same, determined by an all-knowingGod before the heavens were created,before we were a speck in our mother’s womb. “The grass withers and theflowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever” Isaiah40:8.
We can release a collective sigh and know, that no matterhow topsy-turvy the world is, God is steadfast and unchanging. He is our rockin a sea of change.
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