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These Boots are Made for Talkin’

boots & Bible

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.

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19 Replies to “These Boots are Made for Talkin’”

  1. I am daily amazed at all the “little things” that God does for me and my family. If God cares for the tiniest creatures on earth, then He definitely cares about the tiniest details of our lives, because we are so important to Him. Thank you for sharing another great example of God’s provision for our needs!

  6. Wow! That is awesome! I love the boots! I saw the regular Croc boots at Elder Beerman Sunday but they looked so croc-ish.

  10. wow, that was an interesting comment to read that “nicole” left you saying “IF” there is a “God”…blah blah blah, I’m not going to repeat all of her non sense but she OBVIOUSLY does not know our God who loves us so much that he shows up in our everyday lives!!!!

    And, Nicole, HE loves you just as much as HE loves us and wants you to know that HE would love to show up every day in your life too.

    You have nailed it right on the head-God cares. Even about the little stuff.

  12. The boots are lovely. But…I, too, have difficulty with God’s hand in this. If he can provide boots and other items that are a want rather than a necessity, could he please intervene in really important matters? I really would have liked God to have prevented the massacre in India. As I read the details now coming out, it pains me greatly to know the torture these people went through. Couldn’t God have wrapped these good folks in a protective cocoon to keep them safe; to let them see their children grow up? It seem so terribly unfair.

    Again, this isn’t to take away from your chic boots, but my logical brain doesn’t understand God’s involvement/lack of involvement!

    KarenM in NC

  13. I’m blushing. Just reading away in my Google reader and I see my name – always a fun moment. Right back at ya!

    I recently got some brown boots, and they are very comfy, but not free. Whimper.

    And I think God reminds us of his presence in little ways like this. None of us escape sorrow, that’s true, but I’m glad for the “chin ups”.

  14. Karen –
    I wish I had all the answers, and I definitely don’t. But I do know that God is good. I believe God gives us all the choices to do right or wrong. Sadly, sometimes the innocent have to suffer the consequences of another’s wrong choice, whether that be an innocent victim of terrorism or a child that goes hungry because his parent has gambled away all their money. I certainly know that the rain falls on the just and the unjust. I know bad things may happen to me sometime, my prayer is that I will be able to stand firm in my faith if and when they do. Sorry, like I said, I don’t have all the answers, but I do believe God is good and loving, and that he sees us when we are in pain, and is WITH us in the midst of it, if we have given our lives to him.

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