Maielle’s Ruby Slippers

Published by Angela | Filed under Book Review, Women's Issues

Proudly carrying Maielle onto the platform for her dedication ceremony, my daughter Renee  and Maielle were a vision of beauty. Maielle was more stunning than ever in her ruby red organza long skirt and matching sweater. But as beautifully as she glowed it was her ruby red slippers that caught my eye.  Shiny, patent leather attracted the stage lights reflecting tiny, dancing glimmers of sparkling light. It was a sign, no, a portend of what is to come in her life.  

  Maielle, “the perfect one”, is a glimmer of hope for the redemption of our feminine souls.  The night before I had just finished reading Ruby Slippers: how the soul of a woman brings her Home by Jonalyn Grace Fincher.  It’s a wonderful discussion of what  makes women different and the need to realize redemption not only from the power of sin but  from the affects of the fall on our feminine souls.  Information desperately needed by this defrauded generation, Jonalyn has continued a discussion that needs serious consideration.

 Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers from the Wizard of Oz are compared to our feminine souls’ desperate search to find our way home to our original design.    Jonalyn is a young, fresh voice in the maze of misinformation, bias and truth concerning who we are as women.  She takes a sticky subject digests the difficult theology, myriad of informational books, biased commentary and traditional thinking to present an understandable proposition.  Vulnerable and honest she leaves herself open for criticism and misunderstanding in hopes of helping us find ourselves comfortable and at home in our own skin, thoughts, hopes and dreams – free to discover our true selves. 

This transformation of redeeming the feminine soul will be accomplished one person at a time discovering, desiring, desperately seeking and determinedly pursuing the truth.  I’ve been there, done that and will do everything possible to help my daughters, granddaughters, girlfriends, nieces and fellow women find their true selves through living and proclaiming the truth. 

Just before Maielle was brought onto the platform for her dedication to the Lord, the song “One Child” ,by Natalie Grant, was masterfully ministered by Christina Ferris of “Ever After.”  She proclaimed that this one Child, Christ, would change the world.  As we are changed by this One Child our world is changed one person at a time.  This encouraged me to not become disillusioned by the confusion and resignation of so many women to the status quo of living out of a damaged soul with no hope of redemption until the rapture. 

Was it a coincidence that Maielle was wearing shiny, ruby red slippers for her dedication, or that the song “One Child” was sung and that I had just finished reading Ruby Slippers?  I think not.  To me it was a shining, sparkling glimmer of hope sent two days before Christmas.  God is not looking for a revolution;  He longs to redeem us one child at a time. 

As Maielle played with the cellophane wrapped, tiny white rosebud representing her innocence, I realized that she represents all feminine innocence and the hope that, once again, our original design can be redeemed and realized; if not in my lifetime, then in the generations to come.  

I have been called to proclaim the truth of the Word to the dry bones of female souls.  Only God can put the bones back together and create the flesh, sinews, muscles and ligaments.  Only the Holy Spirit can breathe the breath of life back into our feminine souls.  We must respond, one child of God at a time.    

link to Ruby Slippers at www.jonalynfincher.blogspot.com