No Shoes!

So, you wake up everyday and you typically use the restroom, take a shower, eat some breakfast, workout (unless you are like me and are to lazy to.), put on the outfit you're going to wear for the day, and head off to work/school. In that whole list, what have you taken for granted today? For me it was everything, I had a good breakfast, my shower was nice and hot, and I had shoes that I got to wear for the day. Now we don't typically thank God everyday for allowing us to have these things. These are all blessings. Recently I was looking at buying a pair of TOM'S, and in the website was a little promo, April 6th, a day without shoes. I went on to watch the video and from I a gained a soft heart toward the people he works with. His challenge was for you to go a day without shoes, no matter what, to see what those less fortunate had to go through day after day. I am taking this challenge to the next level, a week without shoes. I have only gone one day and it was intense! Walmart asked me to leave, people looked at me as if I were crazy, and the constant walking on gravel was hard! Well anyway, I have absolutely taken all this for granted and just by doing this doesn't make me live a similar life to one as unfortunate as someone without shoes, but in this I hope to gain a better knowledge of how blessed I am. So, then I ask you, what is your shoes?

This would be a new blog?

Yeah, it has been a while. Lately I have been reading through the book of Jeremiah, from a human's perspective, he had a crap life; but how amazing must it be to know that you are doing exactly what God has told you to do, to be so close to him, to walk with him with no distractions, it is amazing how easily we are distracted by simple things. Oh a butterfly!!! No, but seriously here I am asking why I may have plateaued spiritually, it is because of all these simple distractions. Jeremiah is a great example of what it means to be on mission. So in spite of this new found "perspective" (which is something I will be writing/preparing a sermon for down the road.) I am going to work hard to lose weight (for my missions trip and to be healthier) set my priorities, and focus on the mission. Help people follow and fall in love with Jesus. It makes me so upset on how we can raise our hands at a secular concert and scream our lungs out at the new boyband, yet when we are worshiping to the savior that laid his life down to save us, the most we can do is whisper and put our hands in our pockets. It's something I have to work on, but imagine if one of your best friend, your mom, dad, a sibling, was told that you were going to die, and instead of allowing that to happen to you, laid down their life for you, would you act the same way when that persons name was said, would you get teary eyed and get butterflies? So why is it that this man who has done this and more doesn't receive our full attention and life. So on that note, I will be talking more on perspective down the line of my off scheduled blog life, for now this is it. Hope my savior is able to speak volumes to you.