So I bought a pair of snake skin printed skinny pants this week (you know it's going to be a good one when it starts with snake skin pants...). As I have spent much of the last 6 years pregnant this was my first attempt at skinny pants let alone anything snake skin printed. I used to be what I would like to think of as somewhat adventurous in the fashion department. Or at least a little whimsical. But there is something about 4 small boys, a roller coaster of hormones and countless sleepless nights that can knock the whimsy right out of you. At any rate, something must have been stirring inside of me because I bought the darn pants. I didn't even try them on in the store. Too chicken. But after three days of sitting in their bag in my closet it was time to Tango. At first glance I didn't know what to think and apparently Kevin didn't either because his comment when I asked him what he thought of them was, "I'm confused." The more time I spent in the pants, though, the more I liked them. They are actually kind of comfortable. And versatile. I mean, where can you NOT where snake print in Texas? And so there I stood, staring at myself in the mirror, clad in snake skin printed skinny pants and a Ninja Turtle t-shirt thinking, "you know, this isn't half bad." Oh, the outfit was atrocious, but to move about at the end of a long day and in the midst of a busy holiday season and feel nothing but peace....not half bad at all. It does not matter what your clothes look like, what holiday decorations you have managed to put out or how much of your holiday shopping you have accomplished when the peace of God is in your heart. I'd like to think that was how Mary felt as she held her newborn baby in her arms that night so long ago. She rode 9 months pregnant on a donkey and was sleeping in a barn. Not ideal to say the least. But holding God's most precious promise so close to her heart...how could she not feel His peace? And how can we even in the midst of our most ridiculous snake-skin circumstances feel any less? These things that go on outside of us are tiny things compared to what He has put inside of us. Today and everyday I pray this for you. I pray for you His peace. XOXO...Kelly
