Day 335

Day 335 of  The Red Shoe Project just happens to be the day after Thanksgiving -- that's the day that I always set up my Christmas tree and decorate for the holidays.  I popped on my Ruby Reds and set out to do just that.

Seven years ago, I decided to invest in a rather large artificial Christmas tree.  What was unique about this tree was that it had the twinkle lights permanently attached to it.  Who doesn't love twinkle lights?  They make the atmosphere so magical, don't you think?

Decades ago, when I was a little girl,  I remember my father unwinding all the Christmas lights and checking each and every one to make sure it worked.  If one of the lights didn't work, then the whole strand of lights didn't work. It was a tedious process to find out which light didn't work so that you could replace it.

For the past several years, I have noticed more and more of the twinkle lights on my big Christmas tree, no longer functioning.  I took care of that each year by adding my own twinkle lights in the spots where the lights didn't work.  That seemed fine until this year.  When I plugged the tree in -- of the hundreds of lights,  only 5 or 6 lit up.

Oh no!!!  Another menial task.  It took me two whole days to get all the dead Christmas tree lights off the tree.  Two whole days!  What is it with me and menial tasks these days?  That's okay though, because the Lord was with me.  We had quite the chat today about my future.  He told me some interesting things I can look forward to.  It was the strangest thing.  It was as if I had a friend over the house helping me.  Fellowship with Him is getting sweeter and sweeter.


There's an old chorus that goes like this...

"I keep falling in love with Him, over and over and,  over and over again.
 I keep falling in love with Him, over and over and,  over and over again.

It gets sweeter and sweeter as the days go by.  Oh what a love between my Lord and I.

I keep falling in love with Him, over and over and,  over and over again!"

One of my goals in The Red Shoe Project  has been to build an intimate and comfortable relationship with the Lord that's real.  A relationship that mirrors a relationship I would have with another person.  One that's not always on my knees.  One in which I can speak openly and freely as opposed to one in which I speak in King James English.  LOL.   I want to say "normal" -- but I'm not sure that most people would consider all this as "normal,"  if you know what I mean!   

Seriously...  I just want a relationship with God that's  24/7 -- on my part,  not just on His!  Today I saw the beginning of that.  As I was taking the lights off the tree, the Lord was talking to me about life as if He were a person standing right there next to me, helping me.  I love that!  To think that all that came about while doing a menial task!  LOL.

God works in mysterious ways,

His wonders to perform!

In RED shoes, 

Gail