The gift of blue nail polish

I got a mani/pedi this weekend when my friend was visiting.  I struggled long and hard on what to color my fingernails.  Here’s the thing – I’m not a big finger nail polish kind of girl.  I love polish on my toes but on my fingers, I personally don’t like ‘flash’ on my hands.  I don’t like to call attention to me and I tend to speak with my hands at times and then get all self conscious and what not if colors on my fingers flash before my eyes.  BUT, at this one mani/pedi place, they have a deal where you can pay $5 more and you get a mani on top of your pedi... and me being cheap... I can’t say no to that... so I usually get some boring or light or simple light pink color.

Yesterday I got blue.  I haven’t had blue finger nails since I was in high school... and that was probably to get pumped and psyched for our state soccer playoff game – our school colors were blue and white...   I do love blue so my eyes naturally go to that on the wall of polish but to have it on my fingers would stand out way too much... but my friend and I had to wait awhile – busy day I guess... so I kept getting up to change my nail polish color... and finally I landed on blue.

Even afterwards, I was somewhat regretting this decision but I thought.. whatever I leave for india in a few days.. let’s just go all out for the next few days. It’s a fun color.  So today, I go to visit my gma... I walk into her house... I sit down, she sits down and she shows me her hands.... her nails... and she starts telling me about her new blue nail polish that she wants to give to me... and then I flash her my hands!  She was so excited!  It was quite funny actually... I appreciated it and got a fun kick out of it.  Anyways it just made me think about how God even cares about these small things... like our blue nail polish.. that He would humor us and allow us to find enjoyment in even such small and silly things but that bring great joy to each other.  Praise God for blue nails...  why do I doubt his ways?  Even in this, another story of how he knows exactly what he’s doing... and even in my nail polish I shoud ask God what color..  because he has a plan beyond what my pea sized imagination could comprehend.  Blue for a glimmer of joy in my gma?  Awesome.