flip-flops!

Funny (to me, anyway) conversation that occurred last night between me and the husband:

Context: I was sharing my excitement about today's Old Navy $1 flip-flop sale (limit 5), while also impressing him with my thrifty fashion sense*

Me: "I could spend $5 and have flip-flops in every color of the rainbow!"
Him: "There are more than five colors in the rainbow."
Me: "No, but I already have some! I have red and brown and..."
Him: "Brown is not a color of the rainbow."
Me: "......"

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*Note: The thrift, more so than the fashion sense, is the real source of my pride.

another song

I think these songs that have been resonating with me recently are a lyrical expression of a progression in my emotional life. At least, I hope so.

 

(by Sara Groves)

 

Spending my time sleepwalking

Moving my mouth but not saying a thing

Hoping the changes would take by working their way

From the outside in

 

I was in love with an idea

Preoccupied with how life should appear

Spending my time at the surface, preparing the halls

In a shiny veneer

 

There's so many ways to hide

There's so many ways not to feel

There's so many ways to deny what is real

 

And I just showed up for my own life

And I'm standing here taking it in, and it sure looks bright

 

I'm going to live my life inspired,

Look for the holy in the commonplace

Open the windows and feel all that's honest and real

Until I'm truly amazed

 

And I'm going to feel all my emotions

I'm going to look you in the eyes

I'm going to listen and hear until it's finally clear

And it changes our lives

 

There's so many ways to hide

There's so many ways not to feel

There's so many ways to deny what is real

 

And I just showed up for my own life

And I'm standing here taking it in, and it sure looks bright

 

Oh, the glory of God is man fully alive

Oh, the glory of God is man fully alive