Going Gray: What to do with gray hair?

        What is gray hair? From where does it come? I am no scientist nor hair dresser. Logic tells me that over time our bodies begin to wear down. These bodies are not meant to last forever. Although I've been doing some reading in Physics of the Future  , by an author who proposes that this generation will be the last generation to ever "grow old." He says that science and technology of the future will keep us from aging. That's another post for another day. For today, let's deal with age and the gray hair that accompanies age. 
        Our culture tells us to cover up the gray, it's not beautiful. Go to your hairdresser and spend money on coloring your hair. Gray hair makes you look old and the media of our culture tells us that youth is desirable and growing old, is, well not hip. Who says? The culture, the magazines, the models, the creators of pop culture. 
        From an article in Time magazine about a set of female twins who lived far from one another and experienced a face to face reunion: One kept her natural gray and the other covered it up with color.  As they reunited the gray-haired twin's comment: "I saw my brunet twin coming toward me and had the uneasy feeling that she looked like me, only five or 10 years younger. After I saw her, I hated my hair."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1658058,00.html#ixzz1jS9E32IN
        Clairol research reports that the 71% of women who dye their hair do so in order to "look and feel more attractive." Another powerful motivator for gray-haired women to dye, according to Clairol's in-house creative director of color and style, Marcy Cona, is to live the fantasy that they're still 30 or 35 instead of 45 or 60. 
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1658058,00.html#ixzz1jS8FN0dy

        The gray-haired twin ended up coloring her hair to cover up the gray. That's it, right there, our culture tells us that gray hair is undesirable. What does the Lord of Lord's say?


"Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life."  Proverbs 16:31

"The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair." Proverbs 20:29

       Gray hair is a crown! Gray hair is splendor! Let us rejoice in our gray hair! It's a sign of wisdom and life experience. Let's be young while we are young and have color in our hair. Let us walk cautiously as we lack wisdom in our young age.  As we age, let us embrace the age, the gray hair and the wisdom that accompanies.

        It's easy for me to say that we should not cover up the gray. I don't have gray. Well, if I do, it's camouflaged in the blonde.  Will I cover up my gray? I don't know. I'm not gray yet. I'll let you know when I go gray. I can image that a head full of long gray hair might just have a unique shimmer in the sunlight, but we shall wait to see.