Worn-Out Shoes

So here's a quick little bit about shoes from yours truly. I don't own a lot of shoes. I think i can count the pairs of shoes i own on both my toes, and even then you'll only ever see me wear two or three of those. The others are for Weddings and Funerals. At any rate, i will wear a pair of shoes i like until they are literally falling apart. I don't mean the hey these look dirty and the shoe laces are a little scuffed up falling apart, but the real life oh look i can see my foot right there worn out falling apart. I've had shoes make it well into 18 months of wear, which is saying something if you know anything about the kind of lifestyle i live. My wife kinda gives me a hard time about how abusive and generally ungraceful i am with man-made objects (which is why i rarely vote for the cheapest thing i can find. Those break/tear/shred/destroy the fastest). Right now, i'm about to have to call it a day on a pair of shoes i ordered in February of 2013. When i got hired on at the pharmacy and i knew i'd be somewhere clean for 8-10 hours 5 days out of the week, i was ready to give minimalist shoes a run for their money. Not even close to disappointed. While doubling as my workout shoes, this particular pair has become some of the most comfortable pair of shoes i have ever owned in my life. I could go 24 hours in these shoes without sitting down and not even begin to complain about my feet hurting. Run, walk, jump, lift, whatever the life demand given and challenge presented, i'd do it wearing these shoes. Which is why it breaks my heart to have to go find a new pair and ask God that they be as amazing as these because that would be the best. There is no price for comfort. So let yourself be that kind of person. We like to tell God who we will and who we won't be, but truth be told God has put 100% of himself in every single person ever made ever and now and ever after. Like a shoemaker, he's made lots of different types of shoes but you better believe every one of us has a life-time guarantee on us. Then sin gets in the picture and pulls out some of the threads but that's where the Shoe Maker steps in with His guarantee and puts it all together for free. But back to the main point. You have been made to be the best, to take the beatings that walking and running and living bring and do it with style. We are the comfort makers, and the best shoes are the ones that you don't even realise you're wearing and that you kind of cry about when it's time to let them go. Matter to yourself, matter to your friends, be something of quality because He made you with quality and intention and that makes you top-of-the-line material my friends. zt