I was going to sit down and write a grumpy post about how I hate daylight savings time, and how it is so dark by 6:00 p.m. every night that I just want to give up and go bury myself in a hole until spring. BUT – then I thought – who wants to read that? So I decided to think about what I was thankful for.
I am thankful for my new boots.
A few weeks ago at BlissDom, I made a new friend, Laurin, of Laurin and Kelly Talk (she also writes for Blissful Style.) Laurin is way cool and stylish and she, like me, has to share writes her blog with another person. We pretty much hit it off, and over the course of our convo we started talking about boots. She had on some pretty kickin’ (pun TOTALLY intended) ones and I was in need of a pair of tall, brown boots. (We all know I didn’t really need boots. But I didn’t have any and would have loved a pair.) So, I challenged her to find me a pair, a nice pair, that I could afford.
The next Sunday, I saw a $30 pair of tall brown boots in the Target ad. They were cute, and I had a $25 gift certificate to Target, so I decided I’d get those. Then a couple of days later I got an email from Laurin with some different boots she’d found for me. They were awesome, but they were all like $189. I basically have no clothing budget for myself, I just shop after Christmas and my birthday and whenever else I have a need and we have the cash. So, these beautiful boots were out of the question. (But seriously Laurin, I appreciated your scoutin’ them out for me!) I emailed Laurin back and said “Hmm, maybe if I get any money for Christmas…” but I was pretty sure I was just going to buy those $30 Target boots. I DO love Target, after all, and they were cute and in my price range.
Then, not two hours later, I got an email from Alli, aka Mrs. Fussypants, the owner of Blissfully Domestic, aka the World’s Best Boss. The good folks at You by Crocs had asked her to review their new boots, and she said, “Sure, I’d love to, but I’d like you to throw in a pair for my editor at Blissful Style too.”
We got to pick ANY PAIR WE WANTED.
The pair I picked was $300.00. Ok, $299.99. But seriously. I was going to buy the $30 pair and I got a FREE PAIR worth TEN TIMES as much! You can read my full review of them here at Blissful Style. They are amazing, but once again, this is not about the boots. This is about things that happen to me that I don’t deserve, that are not coincidences. This is about how God gave me a nice, expensive, high-quality pair of boots two hours after I’d confessed to a friend that I was going to have to settle for cheapies.
And once again, I didn’t NEED the boots. I could go on living a very good life without tall, brown boots. But I have a God who does this crap for me just to show his amazing love. It’s all about the little things. My dad recently told me that he used to keep a list of the little things that God did for him, and I think I’m going to start doing the same! In my previous post on this subject, I received a comment from someone who found my faith a bit ludicrous. She conjectured that if there was a God, he would certainly be too busy to care about my little needs. But I argue that He is a God who can and does handle it all – big or little, needs or wants, joys or sorrows – He’s big enough. He gives us good gifts just to show his love – and I’ve got the boots to prove it.
