When I turned 18, my mom and I had a plan to get matching tattoos on our feet that said “walk by faith”. However, after thinking about it some more and getting input from others, we decided against it. From that moment, when people asked me if I had any tattoos, I told them no and that I had no plans of ever getting one. I was very close minded to the idea and judged people that were covered in tattoos, always believing the negative stereotypes about tattoos.
One dumb night in college, one of my dorm-mates was doing “stick and poke” tattoos. I thought what the heck I’ll do it thinking it would only last a couple weeks. Little did I know that it would last for years….Whoops Bad mistake.
Fast forward to now, May 2019, I was laying in bed one night and couldn’t fall asleep so I started praying. I asked God to quiet my mind and he did. Then all of a sudden I got the idea to get a tattoo. I felt like God gave me the idea, because it came out of nowhere and I hadn’t been thinking about getting one. The idea I got was: The word SOURCE looping into a tree(covering up the old stick and poke tree tattoo from college).
The meaning behind this ideas is: Jesus is my source of new life.
Then after this idea, 3 reasons quickly came to mind about why I should get this particular tattoo:
1.) I did a stick and poke tattoo in college and I still have it. It represents my bad choices I made in college. However my new tattoo represents redemption and restoration through the cross. Old made new.
2.)To remind myself to be open minded to people that are different than me.
3.) It’s an indirect way to tell people about my faith.
After a few days, I thought dang these are some pretty good reasons, so I decided to go for it.
See the proof below! (:
Before:
After:
