2009 is finally over! YAYYYY!!! Oh, I’m sorry. Do I seem too excited? Well that’s because I am! YAYYYY!!!! For me, 2009 was the most GRUELING year I’ve ever recorded, and you know as a writer I recorded every blood sucking ounce of it! LOL! Yeah, I’m laughing now, but believe me 09 was no cakewalk!
It’d be so much easier if I could just blame the poking, prodding, stretching and breaking all on the devil, but I would SO be lying. As a matter of fact, this was all my doing. Well, not all mine… Without a doubt, the rigorous coursework and each painful lesson learned in the past 12 months was God’s plan of preparation for a much larger picture AND the answer to a very specific prayer I prayed a decade ago. Talk about be careful what you pray for!! 🙂
On New Years Eve, I awakened wearing the leaden cloak of a challenging year coming to an end. My knees seemed to buckle under the weight of it all, and the outlook for the day appeared pretty dismal. However, after a conversation with one of my girlfriends, I recaptured my resolve to leave the process of the passing year behind and carry only the weight of its wisdom with me into 2010. This brand new year promises to yield the fruit of the labor of 2009, and I decided to enter in rejoicing!
So, I needed a little pick-me-up. Nothing like a little shopping to lift a girl’s spirit, right? One of my girlfriends gave me a little cash for Christmas along with some very specific instructions (Thanks, Phyllis! The report is on the way!), so I drove to a nearby shopping center and placed a wager on the Ross department store. After spending some time making my way around the racks, it was beginning to appear the only clothing I’d leave the store with were the clothes I was wearing.
And then it happened…. As my fingers did the walking, hanger by hanger through a sea of denim, I found them. They were a perfect pair of beautiful dark denim blue jeans. It was love at first sight (for me and jeans, that’s a really HUGE deal), and I proclaimed at that very moment, “If they fit they’re going home with me!” I whisked them off to the dressing room where those babies welcomed me like an old friend. Ahhhhh!!!! I was stoked! It was as if God had placed those jeans there just for me , and I received them with open arms. Now I know some of you are thinking, “Why is she so excited? It’s just a pair of jeans.” But for those of you who know what a “selective” (insert PICKY) shopper I am, well…..enough said!
And there you have it. I would try to round this out with some deep, spiritual “moral of the story,” but I’d be grasping. At the end of a painful yet purposeful year of process (didn’t do the P’s on purpose; I promise! LOL!!! There they go again!), God gave me just what I needed to send me skipping, with great expectation, into a brand new year – the perfect pick-me-up in a pair of designer jeans. I’ll definitely be adding this one to my collection of “love stories” from God. My 2010 is looking pretty darn promising, and I’ll be looking pretty darn cute in my brand new Michael Kors. 🙂 Happy New Year!
I love it! God does set aside clothing (and many other things, like parking spaces) for His children, and He does so at just the right time and place. He’s so good. 🙂