Uncomfortable Shoes

I wore shoes today that are supposed to be nice work-related shoes, but I wore them all day. I decided to, granted, but my feet are not liking me right now.

The sermon tonight was in part about doing hard things, and I related doing hard things with wearing uncomfortable shoes. They may seem comfortable for the first few hours, but once you hit that seven or eight hour mark, along with knee-high stockings that are cutting off the circulation to your legs, watch out.

This is also reminiscent of the movie The Second Chance with Michael W. Smith, which I've written about occasionally. Smith goes to the inner city, slings potatoes with the inner city pastor for 10 minutes, while on camera, and then goes back to his mega-church...I won't ruin the rest; it is an excellent film, as well as Smith's debut film role. The sermon tonight also mentioned virtue, and people who are genuinely being virtuous and passionate about the inner city for God versus people who just sling potatoes for ten minutes.

I think people generally, whether Christian or not, want to be comfortable. We want to stay where it's safe, and not risk life or limb for anyone, let alone God. I believe God calls us to live riskily, and be a martyr if necessary. That's for another blog entry completely, though.

Sometimes you have to don those uncomfortable shoes for what seems like an unbearable amount of time, but you're feet will feel better once you've broken them in.