...what shoe are you?...

My Korean grandmother (할머니) asked me once, "When are you going to find your other shoe and give your mother a grandchild?". Not exactly sure if this is a poetic way Koreans ask "When are you going to get married?" or if it's just my grandmother's poetic saying, but it really got me to thinking about finding that special someone to share the rest of my life with. She posed this question a little more than a decade ago and I have been trying since then to figure out, "Well, what kind of shoe am I?" Am I a slipper, a flip-flop, a stiletto, a kitten heel, a pump, a boot, a tennis shoe....what? I won't know my other match if I don't even know what I am, right? I have always had this in the back of my head, especially when I go shoe shopping. I know what I am attracted to, but is he a match? hmmm....not quite sure. Better keep walking and looking for my other shoe. 

In preparing for this adventure, I was packing for my extended trip to the motherland and had a dilemma of too many shoes. My first inclination was, "Oh no! I can't leave behind any shoes!". Haha...it was then I realized I have taken to heart this whole finding my other shoe thing and in the process have developed almost an obsession for shoes. Then the realization came to me that, you know, maybe there is no one perfect shoe match for some people. At home I'm a warm slipper or even just socks. However, in this phase of my life right now, I am an athletic shoe. In being an athletic shoe, I am preparing to be an animal print stiletto. But in between the athletic and stiletto time, I am a walking shoe or pump. So Korean grandma (할머니), I don't know when I will come across my other shoe, but I am more actively searching now and will let you know as soon as I do, when I have found him. Who knows, as one friend has been telling me....he just may be hidden in plain sight. 

Do you know what kind of shoe you are, and have you found your other shoe?

...and so the adventure begins...

I have had this blog for quite a few years and I only posted once in awhile about crafty things and some funny moments in my crazy, yet boring life. Well....my life is boring no more. This new chapter is all about a road I have been shown by the Lord and with a twinkle in His eyes, the challenge and offer to walk down it for an adventure that He has custom made for me. To experience this life as He intended and hold on for all that will come up for me to experience and participate in. That this will be a ride that will leave an indelible imprint in the history of my existence with purpose and blessing in such an abundance that I will have to share and give some of my journey away to those who desire to walk this adventure along with me. Do any of you want to walk along side me? Would you like for your life to be turned upside down and inside out? If so, I DARE you to go for it! Just remember, it is much easier to make a decision than to actually live that decision out! So be sure of your decision....then grab my hand and hold on! 

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost (184-1963). Mountain Interval.  1920.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

 I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.