New Shoes

I have a pair of faded pink converse shoes which are the most comfortable shoes ever. I've had them for two years now and they are starting to fall apart but I still love them. They are falling apart with holes between the edge of the sole and the canvas so that I get sand and stones in my shoes, the to is worn down so that I can see my colourful socks when I look down, the inner sole has worn out and is practically nonexistent and I'm afraid of what will happen when it rains. I know I need a new pair of shoes but I love these. They're comfortable, moulded to fit the shape of my foot. I have also decorated the edge with some of my cool graphics. I don't want a new pair. That means that I have to go shopping (and yes even though I'm a girl I don't actually enjoy shopping), find another pair of shoes that I like and then I have to break them in and suffer through a period of uncomfortable shoes and blisters in order to actually like the shoes. So I think I'll just keep these a little longer.

Some times life is a bit like that pair of shoes. We're comfortable with what we have even if we know that we aren't giving the best we have. Just like I am comfortable in my scruffy, worn out shoes, we are comfortable with our everyday existence as it is. We may know that we are not putting 100% into our job or the activities we are involved in but we don't really care because we are content with what we have. Our life is moulded to fit us and we really don't want to step out of our comfort zone to make any changes. We don't want to be actively involved in improving our life because it may involve pain and discomfort before it gets better than before and we don't really want to blister.

Maybe we should. Maybe we should all go out and but a new pair of shoes. Maybe we should replace our average everyday existence with a life which glorifies God as we put in our 100%. If we step out of our comfortable shoes - our comfortable existence - into a better pair we might just be able to live to the potential which God has created us with. Instead of being comfortable with the mediocre life we may be living we have to work at stepping out of our comfort zone and challenging ourselves with new things.

I might just go out and buy a new pair of shoes after all...