The Beauty of Release: A Powerful Lesson About Faith Hidden in Falling Curls

I’m growing my hair out, and I forget that naturally—organically—hair sheds. Hair falls from my head like leaves fall off trees and petals fall off flowers.

Shedding—letting go—one of the most natural parts of humanity. And parts of nature.

I look to nature to tell me how to live because the God of Abraham created the world and everything in it before He created man and woman—or perhaps we should say he created woman. But that is a discussion for another day.

I forget how much my hair used to shed, because it has been years, truly, years since I have had long hair. But every winter I grow my hair out just enough so that the cold does not whip against the bald scalp that now I wear as my crown.

In winter, I let curls cover this crown of mine, and I wear my curls with pride. The curls that I was once told were too… Too everything! Too unruly. Too not pretty. Too ugly on me, but beautiful on others. (I never quite understood that, but okay.)

And so now, as hair falls from my head, I can’t help but wonder: Am I okay? Is this normal?! But then I remember: this is nature! This is God in action. Hair is supposed to fall. Making way for new growth, New hair.

And so I let it.

I thank it for its service. Grateful for the more that it is making room for.

And this is not only about hair and flower petals and tree leaves.

This is about humanity. This is about life. This is about making space, creating space, offering space for more by letting go of what once was. Thanking it for its service. Grateful for what it did. The beauty it created. The love that it nurtured. The space it held. All that it did. The sacrifice it made.

And then it left. It fell.

And I watched my curls swim down the drain, knowing that more is coming. More is already here!

I’m not sad anymore because the curls are leaving, because there is so much newness in its place that I can’t even tell that they’ve already gone.

This is love. This is creation. This is how God makes us a new creature—noticing what once was and creating space for what is. And surely for what is to be.

And so it is. So it was. And so it absolutely will be, forever and ever and ever. Amen.

Embrace the Sacred Act & Art of Letting Go

Right now, in this very moment, you are worthy of every good, beautiful, noble, and sacred thing in the world! Hair falls. Seasons change. You shed what no longer serves you—and that’s how God makes space for more. Not when everything is “perfect”. You are worthy of renewal now.