The Wrong Foot Kid-learning the hard way

     Life can be as easy or difficult as we make it. Sometimes it’s as easy as putting our shoes on the right feet or as difficult as putting them on backward.  The point is we have a choice, and whatever way we decide to wear them will determine the outcome.

      My Granddaughter had a thing about putting her shoes on the wrong feet all the time.  It would never fail that when she sat down to put them on…in her mind they looked the way they were suppose to be.  Up she would go outside to play with her cousins.

     Sitting on the porch, I’d watch her come out, and I’d say, “Keria, you have your shoes on the wrong feet.”

“Oh, that’s ok Granny, I don’t mind them this way,” she’d say, and off she’d go to play with her cousins in the yard.

     I’d sit there watching them run around playing tag.  She’d run about trying not to be tagged, and trip all over her feet.  She was one that did not like to lose, and I could see her getting frustrated.

      I’d call out to her again. “Keria, if you just switch your shoes around you’ll be able to run much better.”

   
     “Oh, that’s alright Granny.  I don’t mind them like this,” she’d say again.

     I wondered if that’s what it’s like in our life when God the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit is trying to help show us the right way.  How often we think we know better and don’t need anyone else to tell us how to do what we are perfectly happy doing the hard way.
 
     That’s when I picture God, the Son, and Holy Spirit settling in on the porch saying to each other…looks like we’re going to have to wait this one out.  God being the creative one sits back and pulls out his knitting.  The Holy Spirit being full of all kinds of wisdom and knowledge pulls out his Sudoku.  Jesus being the one who’s been there and done that, as a human just sits back and takes a nap.  Knowing that once we trip enough times will eventually get the message... and put our shoes on the right feet.