Thursday, January 31, 2008

Ruby Slippers (and Sequin Pumps)

Over the past few weeks, a group of girls from my church and I have been doing some serious soul searching as we take a journey through this book, Ruby Slippers by Jonalyn Fincher. I love being a woman. I love everything about it. But this book challenges us to strip everything away that society has deemed "feminine" and look at the naked soul. It's amazing how we sometimes define ourselves by what the world (any many times, the church) tells us femininity is supposed to be. This is a line from the book and it has stuck with me ever since I read it.

"I am not a wife, a daughter, a niece, a sister... I am not a philosopher... I am not a writer... I am not fun, enthusiastic, motivated, organized, disciplined, creative... I am not bossy, demanding, impatient, stubborn, judgmental... I am none of these. I am a naked soul clothed in the righteousness of Christ. "

Speaking of all things glittery and girly, I feel it important to mention that I LOVE shoes! For the first 20 years of my life, I purposely avoided anything that remotely resembled a heel due to insecurity issues over the fact that I've been about 5'10'' ever since I was 13. But now, I've learned to embrace my height, and I love wearing heels. I purposely bought these shoes for the Emmy Awards on Saturday.. but they didn't show up in any of the pictures, so I wanted to give them their moment of glory. These are my fabulous, sequined, zebra print shoes from Victoria's Secret. So fun!!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sassy!!

And we seriously need to go on a photo shoot soon.

I am itching to spend an afternoon taking pictures.

Anonymous said...

Oh. And by the way.

Are you on Flickr? If not, you totally should be.

There are different groups you can join and such.

Like this one I just joined.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/gameon/

It it called Flickr Roulette. And each day there is a different subject matter and you take pictures that are your take on the subject matter.

Looks like it is going to be fun.

Anonymous said...

Sign into flickr and then try and cut and paste the address in the earlier comment to your address bar.

The cool thing about Flickr is looking at others pictures often times gives me my own ideas.

Anonymous said...

Black and white and red!!!!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2178/2235231026_0748ec76b3.jpg?v=0

I am having so much fun taking pictures right now.

Anne-Camille Collins said...

GREAT shoes!