Allergies

Irritation.  Redness.  Swollenness.  Itchiness.  Prick test.  Patch test.

Allergies!

Mine is unknown.  It only occurs around the eyes.  It’s been a year.  I have an exhaustive list of all that’s been eliminated. Nothing is conclusive, but I was told most recently the allergy could be  “fragrance”.

I thought, well that stinks!

Have you ever had to pay any particular attention to an ingredient list?  Fragrance is everywhere. It’s in everything.

It’s potentially toxic to me.

I was so bummed imagining the absence of fragrance and what to do.   I have literally and most recently chased down a woman in a store to find out what perfume she was wearing.  And, now to never possess a signature scent!

But, oh!  Wait a spritzer!

We’re told, “Our lives are a fragrance presented by Christ to God.”

It’s not the perfume.

It’s our lives that are to be sweet-smelling.  Underline “our lives”.

“He uses us to tell others about the Lord and to spread the Good News like a sweet perfume.”

Oh, God?  Who is adequate for such a task as this?  I’m pretty sure of the likely stench of this on me.  I doubt anyone will be following me down an aisle to get a whiff of this.

“But Christ loved and gave Himself as a sacrifice to take away our sins and God was pleased.”

He calls it, “sweet perfume.”

It’s His signature scent.

Read: 2 Corinthians 2:14-17; Ephesians 5:2; Romans 15:16 (NLT)